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Thank you for all being here as we take

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a major new step to support our

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incredible military family , something

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that we've been working on for a long

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time , I guess you could say for

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decades . There's never been anything

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like this . Today , I'm signing an

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executive order to establish the first

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ever presidential military spouse

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commission . It'll be chaired by

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Jennifer Hegseth , the wife of and

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highly respected wife , I may add , of

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth , both

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here . I also want to congratulate the

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new executive director of the .

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Commission , Desiree . So where's

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Desiree ? Where are you ? Desiree , you

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do such a good job . Desiree Thompson

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Sale , along with new commission member

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Christy Mullen , wife of Secretary of

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Homeland Security , Secretary Mark

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Wayne Mullen . These are outstanding

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people , everyone , male and female ,

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outstanding . The commission will also

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include the spouses of our wonderful

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service secretaries , the spouses of

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the Joint Chiefs of Staff , and the

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spouses of their senior enlisted

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leaders , and , uh , we have some

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incredible talent , and I won't tell

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you these spouses I've looked at

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educationally in every other way

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they're amazing . We're also pleased to

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be joined by Secretary Hegseth and the

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ,

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General Dan Kane . Thank you very much ,

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Dan . America cannot have the strongest

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military in the world without the love

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and devotion of our remarkable military

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spouses who make the extraordinary

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sacrifices for our country . They

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really are extraordinary . Many .

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Military spouses spend months separated

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from their loved ones while our heroes

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are deployed overseas . Military

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families also endure frequent moves and

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other unique challenges , and the

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challenges are legendary . They write

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books about them . This commission will

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provide recommendations for improving

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the quality of life for military

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spouses so that we can better support

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both our military families and the

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entire United States armed forces . The

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commission will develop suggestions to

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address particular challenges in

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housing , employment , healthcare ,

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education , childcare , and just about

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everything else you can think of . It's ,

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we've never had this opportunity .

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We're doing it now because we've done a

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lot for our military . We love our

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military . Every day our administration

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is fighting to give our military

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families the support they dearly need

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and they deserve . As part of the great

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big beautiful bill , we provided

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hundreds of millions of dollars for

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military childcare and improved housing

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on military bases . It's being built ,

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much of it's being built right now .

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Last Christmas , every service member

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received a warrior dividend of .

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$1,776 . Think of that . I wonder

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where we got that number . It's

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actually 1775 . The number worked out

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to be $170 . I said if you add $1 we

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have $17 . That was one of my genius

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ideas . We have 1,776 , but that's ,

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that was a great thing . And we've

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given every member of our military hard

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earned pay raise . We've also given the

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pay raise . The commission will help

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ensure we continue to give military

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spouses our very best so our military

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can continue to be the strongest

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military anywhere in the world , and

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we're proving that , uh , as you know ,

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we had a conflict with Venezuela worked

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out very well , and we have a conflict

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with Iran , and that's working out very

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well , very , very well . So now I'd

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like to ask Jennifer Hegseth to say a

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few words , followed by Pete , General

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Kane , and then I will sign the

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executive order putting this into play ,

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and it's uh an order that's long

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overdue as far as I'm concerned , like

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by decades . And we're going to do a

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real job with it . And Jennifer , if

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you will , please , Mr . President ,

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you have been a champion for the

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military , and we are so grateful for

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that and that continues today . And

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like you said , these are generational

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issues that are long overdue to address ,

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and we have the most amazing women here

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who have decades of experience as

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military spouses themselves . To take a

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look at it , there's really nothing

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we're going to find that they haven't

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experienced . And so between what

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they've experienced and what they know ,

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we're going to really tackle these

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things . And I've spent the last year

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traveling around meeting with military

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spouses and families around the world

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and around the country , and it's the

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same from Kentucky to Singapore . It's

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housing , it's healthcare , it's

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employment . It's childcare , it's

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education , and so we're gonna take a

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look at all of those things . Even ,

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even one of the women up here , I won't ,

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I won't say who , but was a paramedic ,

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and As they moved from state to state ,

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she could not get the license . Switch

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to that state in time before you move

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again , before you PCS , and it makes

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it really difficult for these families

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to survive , let alone all the other

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sacrifices we're asking for them . So

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this is a big deal today . We're super

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grateful . Every time Pete travels

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around , Secretary Hexa travels around

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talking to the troops , he tells them

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the president has your back , and now

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the families know that you have their

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back too , and we are grateful . Thank

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you . Thank you , Jennifer . Great job .

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Thank you . Um , how about you say

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something first and then we'll go , I

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can't , then we'll go back into the

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general . You're not gonna talk . I

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can't top that , Mr . President . Give

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it a shot . You're not going to . You

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know , it's true . Strong families

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equal strong formations . When you look

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at it from a military perspective as a

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secretary , our job is to make sure our

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troops are prepared and ready on behalf

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of the nation . And if your family is

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not taken care of , then it causes

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hesitations and complications for the

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warfighters out front . And so we say

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often , and we mean it , no soldier ,

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no marine , no member of the joint

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force serves alone . And so if we can

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address the issues of housing and make

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sure it's quality housing , make sure

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employment opportunities are maxed .

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Out . Make sure childcare is taken care

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of . Make sure schools are the best in

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the world so that military kids are

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being educated . The trade skills they

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might want to take the next chapter in

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life . If that warfighter knows that

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their family is good to go , uh , they

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will go the extra mile , which is what

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our nation asks . So we're in , we're

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in this is not one of those window

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dressing efforts that Jen's right .

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This entire group has mountains of

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experience and they're raring to go to

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put it to use on behalf of the great

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Americans who serve our nation . And

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this is going to be full speed ahead to

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address every quality of life issue we

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can , which Mr . President , you , you

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invested in the one big beautiful bill .

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People don't know how much went into

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housing and into barracks and into pay .

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That's a down payment . And now with

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the $1.5 trillion which we're working

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to get every dollar of , it's going to

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be a generational investment in

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barracks . Housing and healthcare in

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pay in ways no commander in chief has

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ever done before . So Mr . President ,

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thank you for leading on this , and

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this commission is ready to go . Well ,

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thank you very much . You're doing a

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fantastic job , General . Please , Mr .

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President , Mrs . Heckseth , Secretary

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Hegseth , it's an honor for me to be

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here today at the launch of this

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commission . As we stand here now

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around the world , military service

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members are out doing our nation's

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business and ready to do what is asked

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of them . The foundation of American

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military readiness is the families ,

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and the backstopping of all of that is

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the military spouses that serve behind

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them . Inevitably every time somebody

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deploys that refrigerator will break

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down , the car will break down . You

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think we're strong . American military

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spouses are 10 times stronger , and the

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lift that they carry is significant

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every single day . I want to thank this

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commission for the Work that they're

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going to do to help improve military

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families' lives and military spouses'

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lives , it is a critical enabler for

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American war fighting capabilities . So

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to all of you here and all the work

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that went into putting this commission

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together , thank you , Mr . President ,

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we're honored to be here today . Where

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will they be meeting when you have

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meetings because you're going to be

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having a lot of meetings . Do you know

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where you're going to be meeting every

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month here at the White House . Oh ,

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that's great . We can't do better than

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that . Can't do better than that . Use

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the Oval Office . Would anybody like to

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say anything ? Maybe Desiree , you

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could start , and then if you want to

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say anything , great time to say it .

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Desiree . I'll just be really short .

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It's a pleasure for me to serve as the

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executive director of this commission .

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I think it's a long time coming . Um ,

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it's a little bit of a pet project out

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of my office , uh , simply because we

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have the chief of staff of the Air

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Force's wife that has been

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inspirational for this . Um , she's 41

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year spouse , um , but collectively

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this group has over 400 years of

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experience . As an active duty military

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spouse , 400 , and they've probably

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moved about 300 times . So if you can

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imagine that level of experience coming

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to this commission and solving real

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problems for the future of our military

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spouses and families , it's just an

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incredible thing that you're doing ,

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President Trump , actually asking them

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to solve these problems and to give you

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good recommendations , and we're happy

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to help them do that . So you know , we

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have Desiree's been with us for a long

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time . And she's directly and

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indirectly done what she's doing for a

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long , long time , covered numerous

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presidents , and She basically responds

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to the public when the public , uh ,

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they send things . Sometimes they send

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gifts . Actually it amounts to millions

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of dollars in small money , and I said ,

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Well , what happens to that money ?

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They send it back or they do charitable

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work , but it's literally millions .

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They send it to me . I should be able

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to get it . She won't give it to me . I

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should be entitled to it . No , but

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they send it to me as just a . Gesture ,

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but they write thousands and hundreds

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of thousands of letters , and she's got

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a staff that's all volunteer , and I

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have one question . How did I , how do

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I compare in terms of response with

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other presidents of the past ? No

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comparison , sir . Is that good or bad ?

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No , it's good . It's very good . It's

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very good . We do OK . We do a little

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more than . Sleepy Joe ,

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yes , I think so . Thank you . Thank

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you . Uh , does anybody have anything

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to say or a question or statement ?

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Would you like to make a statement ?

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Yes , please . Can I just say , um ,

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I'm so excited . I've , we've served

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with the Wills Box now for a number of

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years , and I've seen them champion the

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enlisted Corps . Um , as a , as the

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spouse of a senior enlisted leader ,

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it's pretty easy for something amazing

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like this to happen and not include the

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enlisted corps , the senior enlisted

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leaders from the enlisted corps . It

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means the world to me that this started

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with them in mind . And , um , I don't

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know if you remember , but a few years

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ago , my husband was serving in Alaska ,

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and before you got on the plane , he

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asked your detail if he could ask you a

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question , and he asked if you would

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FaceTime me , and you did . I

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It meant , it meant the world . You're

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getting ready to get on the plane and

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this E-9 , this enlisted , uh , uh ,

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command chief asked you to FaceTime me

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and you put your arm around him . You

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said , he's doing a good job . Take

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good care of him . And that that

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picture hangs has hung in his office

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since , and it just means the world to

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me that you highlight the enlisted

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court every chance you get , and I love

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to tell people that story that you took

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the time for . Thank you very much .

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Say hello . OK , I remember . Please ,

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anybody else , this is Cindy Wilsbach

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who's humble to her core and has had a

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significant role in putting this

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commission together . So I just want to

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highlight Cindy . I would just like to

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say this is a red letter day for me ,

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just the honor that I feel to be

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surrounded by these spouses who , what

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I like to say is we serve by oath or by

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vow . We didn't all raise our right

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hand to take an oath , but we began

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serving this great nation when we

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extended our left hand and said a vow

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to the person that we love that served

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this country , and we represent people

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that are at the end of their careers .

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We have served decades , 2030 , 40

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years of . This is about the legacy

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that we leave for the people that come

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after us , for these people who have

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children who are serving now , or for

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families that we say we love you , we

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care about you , and we are the

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greatest military in the world , and

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part of that is taking care of our

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families , and that's what this

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commission and your husband is highly

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respected , I have to tell you that by

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everybody , by everybody . Anybody over

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here ? Yes , please , Mr . President ,

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on behalf of the Coast Guard . We

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cannot thank you enough for the amount

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of money that you have put into our

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organization . We are beyond excited

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about the new potentials that we have .

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We can just feel it . The whole , the

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whole Coast Guard , every time we go to

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visit our different units and our

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families , people are super excited .

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11 ice gutters , right ? Absolutely .

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I'll be talking . Yes , going to be

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beautiful . Yes sir , yes sir . They

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had 1 . Russia has 48 . They had one

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and it was 50 years old and you're

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gonna soon be getting 11 brand new ones

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at top of the line , so that's our

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people are very thrilled and super

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excited and very thankful to you .

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Thank you , sir . Thank you very much .

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Good . Anybody else like to say ? Last

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chance . That's it . So I'm gonna sign

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this and it's a real honor and then if

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you like , you could ask questions of

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the people . And or me if you want .

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OK , that's a good one . So I wouldn't

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want a bad one on this topic . Some are

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good , you know , we rate them from . 6

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To 10 . 6 is usually when I'm standing

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up holding it . You can't do a very

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good one , but uh that's a 10 , so

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we're , you deserve a 10 too .

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OK . I think you should know that , OK .

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Questions , please , please . On behalf

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of the press corps , I thank you ladies

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for what you do for our service members

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in this country . Mr . President , are

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the talks with Iran now off and air

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strikes ? No , they're on . They're

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going on right now . It's an amazing

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thing . We have a little problem with

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Iran because we have many talks and

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we'll say we have or we don't have ,

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you know , we're straight about it ,

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but they deny , but they're not denying

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it now . They just put out a statement ,

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not denying it , but for some reason

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they . When they're talking , they

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don't like saying that they're talking ,

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so I say , wait , we're in talks . Big

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deal , we're in talks , and they'll

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sometimes deny it even though they

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spend hours and hours together talking .

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No , the talks are going along . We're

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going to hit them very hard yesterday ,

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very , very hard , harder than . Any

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attack , I think I can say , general ,

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from A point of knowledge , any attack

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since World War II , that's pretty big ,

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and we were set to go and they called

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and in addition , Saudi Arabia called

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and uh UAE called . Qatar

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called , got calls from numerous people ,

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not , I don't wanna use the word

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begging , but some , some , in

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particular , Iran did not want to be

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hit . And they said we want to talk ,

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we want to talk about the strait , but

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more importantly from my standpoint ,

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we want to talk about the

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denuclearization of Iran because it's

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what it's all about . This is why I'm

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doing this , and it should have been

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done . It's now 50 years . We keep

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saying 47 years , but 3 years have gone

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by , but it's for 50 years that other

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presidents should have been doing what

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I or other countries . It didn't have

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to be us , but other countries . And

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nobody did it , and it was time and we

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hit him hard with the B-2s more than a

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year ago now . And that knocked out

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their capability , their potential

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capability , uh , and uh we've done a

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great job , but when we talk we say

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we're talking . If we're not talking ,

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when you ask me no we're not talking ,

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I'll say it , but we are talking right

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now we're talking and we're talking at

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the request of Iran . Backed by Saudi

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Arabia , backed by UAE , and backed by

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Qatar in particular , but others also ,

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many , many countries called the

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leaders of many are friendly with a lot

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of them , almost all of them one way or

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the other , and they all wanted to give

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this a last chance . This is a last

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chance . This is not something that if

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it doesn't happen , this is the last

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chance for them to sign a . Good

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document . Yes , please , Mr .

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President , New York City Mayor Zoran

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Mamdani is requiring an ID to access

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his government-run grocery stores .

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What then is your message to Democrats

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who do not want to pass the Save

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America Act and ensure , uh , you know ,

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ID at the ballot box was announced .

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This was just announced . I heard about

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it . Yeah , well , I wish they'd have

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an ID to access the voting booth , you

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know , they don't want to access the

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voting booth with any identification .

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We want voter ID . And we want proof of

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citizenship . Uh , well , he also had a

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thing where you had to have two

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different IDs to shovel snow during the

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winter , right ? So that's a very

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friendly question . I like her . Who

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are you with ? Very good , good

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question . Very good . Almost 20 GOP

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senators who have pledged to stay in DC

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to pass the Save America Act . So

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what's your message to the rest of the

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senators who are still on their summer

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recess ? I think there's nothing more

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important than the Save America Act . I

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think they should stay . They do what

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they want , but I think they should

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stay . I think it's so important to get

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it passed . Yes , where are the Iran

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talks and what are your requirements ?

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You'll find out today or tomorrow . I

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mean , they're going to go quickly one

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way or the other . It's not very

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complex . We're talking about the

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strait , the opening of the strait ,

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having it open literally by tomorrow ,

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completely open , and that's phase one

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and phase two is we then will talk

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about the nuclear , uh , capacity , the

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nuclear , what , you know , as we've

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been mentioned , basically , it's , I

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think Moss , the denuclearization . Of

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Iran has to happen , has to happen ,

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and that'll be the second phase , but

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the first phase is the opening of the

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straits . The second phase will be the

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denuclearization , and that'll take a

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little while , but we They're very

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strong on it . They cannot have a

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nuclear weapon . Iran cannot have a

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nuclear weapon , and I've never changed .

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Yeah , please , in the back . Mr .

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President . You said that if Democrats

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get back into power , what is happening

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in Spain awaits America . What should

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voters in other countries with

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elections coming up soon take away from

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what's going on in Spain to be very

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careful with the whole socialist thing .

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I think in many cases it's much more

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than socialists . They skipped

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socialism . They went directly to

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communism . But when I saw what

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happened in Spain , I said , you know ,

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we had a version of that , you could

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say much worse . We , we allowed 25

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million people under Joe Biden . The

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Democrats , we had open borders and

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countries all over the world , almost

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all of them , sent people that they

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don't want into our country , and we've

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gotten a lot of them out and we're

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getting more , including murders , and

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I always say 11,888 , that was the

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number of murders . Many of them

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committed more than one murder and .

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We're going to be just like that if you

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put these lunatics in that I see

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running for office . Uh , they had , we

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had an open border a year and a half

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ago . We had the worst border in the

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history of our country . Now we have

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the best border . We haven't had one

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person come in , and this is done by

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the Democrats by left-leaning people .

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They do charts , and they have in 15

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months , not one person has come in

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through our southern border illegally .

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Now that's pretty amazing . I'd say

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maybe 10 , maybe 15 , they say none ,

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and believe me , if they did , they'd

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love to report it , but you could go

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outside in those vast plazas where

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hundreds of thousands of people

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gathered when they stormed our country

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just like they did , in my opinion ,

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worse , just like they did to Spain .

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They , they stormed our country and

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those borders are those , those big

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plazas that were built , they put

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concrete down . And now you look at

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them and there's grass growing in the

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cracks . Nobody comes up because they

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know they're not going to get through ,

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and if they do get through , they're

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going to be taken out , brought back to

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their country . So , uh , we've done a

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fantastic job , you know . Somebody

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said you did it too fast . I did it in

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30 days , my 1st 30 days . Biden

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couldn't do it . He couldn't get it

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done . He tried at the end . He tried

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to do something because it was so

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overwhelming . It was so bad

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politically . But we did it in 30 years .

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Somebody said you should have taken 1.5

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or 2 years to complete it because

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everyone forgets . Even my

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speechwriters , they say , Sir , nobody

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wants to hear about the border anymore .

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You've done it . It's an incredible job

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you've done , but nobody wants to hear

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about it , and I should have taken a

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couple of years to do it because , uh ,

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and it actually was the public has

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about a 2 year people do . They have a

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two year memory for certain things .

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They have a two week memory . I may

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have gotten elected , I certainly

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partially on the border , and because

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we did such a great job , it was a long

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time ago . I did it twice . I did it in

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2016 . When it was bad , but I did it

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this last time when it was really bad .

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It was , Steve , I would say many ,

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many times worse than it was in 2016 .

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2016 was bad , but what we just had a

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year and a half ago , that was the

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worst border maybe in world history .

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There's not a third world country that

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would have allowed that to happen with

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people coming in from prisons and

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people coming in from mental

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institutions . And people forced in by

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government because these are the people

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that those governments , those

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countries , I know them all , they

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didn't want , and they walked into a

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country totally unvetted , totally

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unchecked . Not anymore . Nobody comes

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in . Except if they come in legally ,

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yeah , thank you , Mr . President .

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Yesterday I'm with the Washington

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Examiner , sir . They're good . They've

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been very nice to me . You were asked

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yesterday whether Representative Max

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Miller should resign from Congress over

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the allegations , and you said that

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you'd have a look at it . Have you

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thought about that ? And also , it's a

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very sad thing . I know Max , he's uh ,

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is a good person . I mean , I always

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thought he was a very good person , and

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I'm going to let the families figure

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that out , you know , those families .

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I know they're working on it . It's a

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very sad thing , especially when you

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know somebody so well to be going

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through that , but it's accusations ,

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and I'm gonna let them figure that out .

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Yeah , please , Mr President , did ,

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did you sign off on Todd Blanch

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rescinding the anti-weaponization fund ?

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And also there are Democrats right now

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who say there's essentially two tax

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codes . There's the Trump family tax

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code and a normal people tax code . Why

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do you think that your family deserves

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some level of special exemption when it

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comes to the auditing of taxes ? Well ,

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I'll go into that . First of all , I

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had a 10-year case that was settled

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until I announced I was running for

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office . It was a settled deal like

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I've been doing all my life . I've been

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audited every year for my entire life ,

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which I have a lot of wealthy friends .

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They were never audited . To this day

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they were never audited . I was audited

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and my deal was settled in writing . It

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was settled . Subject to final approval ,

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then I announced I was running for

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president , and all they did was haunt

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me with it . They ended the settlement

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and they went after it and they went

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after me illegally and they did a lot

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of bad things to me like they did to

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other people and uh I was treated very

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unfairly by the IRS . I was , it was

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weaponized against me . Think of it and

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a case from this is a 10 year old case

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and . It was settled . It was done .

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The case was over . I announced I'm

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running for president . And they

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terminated the settlement in Washington

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and they went after me and what they

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did here was very frankly , uh , if you

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talk about reparations or if you talk

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about payment , what they did to me , I

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had a very good case against them so

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this was a case that was settled that

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when I decided to run for president

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right at the beginning , this is a long

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time it's been . Going on for a long

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time , they terminated the settlement ,

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which is something that never happened

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before . We have letters from the

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biggest law firms in Washington saying

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that this case is nonsense , just like

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the Russia , Russia , Russia was

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nonsense . They weaponized government ,

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and so that's that , and most people

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understand that . On the other , on the

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fun , these were people that were

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treated unbelievably 22 suicides , more

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than that , I think . Look at Ashley ,

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look at , look at so many other things

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that happened . These people were

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treated horribly , and this fund could

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have given them some solace , but , uh ,

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you know , it happens to be very

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popular among . Many quarters and I

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don't participate in that fund . I was

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certainly treated badly . I don't

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participate , but I thought it would be

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very fair for people that spent years

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in prison , people that were treated so

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badly , for in many cases people that

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did absolutely nothing wrong . So I

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view that fund as a positive and a lot

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of Republicans do too . Not so many

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Democrats , and it's not only for that ,

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it's for other things too , people that

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have been treated unfairly , that have

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been weaponized by a corrupt government

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that we had with Obama and that we had

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with Biden . You had a corrupt

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government with both of them . I didn't

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look at it . All I know is that Todd

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Blanche is great . He's going to do a

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great job . Everybody knows it . And I

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understand there's been a sign off ,

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but I didn't , I don't know what they

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agreed . I think Todd Blanche agreed to

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reconfirm things that he's already said ,

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and what he said was OK . Please go

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ahead other avenues you have supporters

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get paid potentially if it's not the

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anti-ization fund . Is there ? Who are

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you with ? I'm with MS now , sir .

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You're MS MS now . What a terrible show .

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They have the worst people on that show .

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No , there's no other avenues that I

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know about . Go ahead , MS now , that's

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the failed MSDNC , right ? The failed .

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They failed . They gave it a new name .

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You know why ? Because nobody watched

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it . Go ahead . And , and fewer people

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are watching it now . On the Iran talks ,

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Iran willing to return to a fully free

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navigation of the strait ? Is that on

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the table ? Uh , say it again

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differently . Iran be willing to

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return to fully free navigation ? It

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has to be . I'm not going to let them

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charge . If anybody's going to charge ,

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we'll charge . We're the one that has

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total we have total control , you know ,

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we have a thing called a blockade with

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his navy , and that navy is they call

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it a wall of steel , the United States

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Wall of steel . And no , no , there's

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not going to be charging . We're not

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talking about charging at all . There

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won't be charging . Yeah , please do

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back you said last week that who are

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you with

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you said that illegal immigration is

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killing the UK . Nigel Farage today has

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proposed the use of the . to combat

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small boats crossing the Channel . Do

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you think that European nations ,

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including the UK , should be using

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their militaries to stop ? Look , you

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have to stop illegal immigration in

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Europe . I know Europe better than

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anybody , better than the people that

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run it . And have great relationships .

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Two things are killing Europe . Number

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1 is immigration . Number 2 is energy .

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Like the UK , when you look at the UK ,

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they have one of the best energy fields

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in the world , North Sea Oil , and I

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think your new prime minister is gonna

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actually open up the , from what I hear ,

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I spoke to him , and he sounded

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terrific on this subject , but you open

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it up , you'll be a wealthy country .

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You keep it closed , you're gonna be a

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bankrupt country , which is what you

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are now . Essentially , you're a

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bankrupt country . You have one of the

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greatest energy for the North Sea oil .

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One of the greatest fields in the world ,

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you know , the UK buys its energy from

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Norway , who gets the energy from the

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North Sea , from not as vibrant a part

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of the North Sea oil-wise . You're

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sitting on top of gold , better

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than gold , and you don't do anything

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with it . It , it doesn't , it doesn't

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work . You don't allow the oil

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companies in . And it doesn't work and

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I spoke with your new prime minister .

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I was very impressed and he sort of

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indicated to me and said , look , you

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can be a wealthy country or a bankrupt

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country . You have your choice . Not

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every country has that choice . Almost

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no country has that choice , but in the

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case of the UK , Scotland , I'm talking

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about Scotland right off the shore in

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Aberdeen , Scotland . That Aberdeen ,

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Aberdeen was the oil capital of Europe

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for years , and then one day the

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Liberals got in and they closed it .

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And your energy rates have quadrupled .

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You have among the highest energy

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prices in the world . You could cut

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them in half . You could give away free

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energy if you'd open up the North Sea ,

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and it's good for another 500 years ,

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maybe more , probably 1000 years . Has

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our new Prime Minister restored your

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faith in the leadership of Britain , or

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has our , um , new Prime Minister

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restored your faith in the leadership

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of Britain , or do you think it's too

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late ? Look , I think we're gonna have

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a very good relationship . We'll see .

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I'm not gonna tell him how to run his

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country , but I can tell you

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immigration is an incredible problem

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for Europe . You're allowing people in

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that in many cases . They're not going

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to help you . I'm going to be nice .

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They're not going to help you . And the

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people that are there , people from

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your country , people from other

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countries that have been there for a

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long time and did a great job ,

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beautiful place , look , I love it ,

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you know , my parents both came from .

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Europe indirectly . So a German .

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Scott And you know it's like

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one of those things it's very sad when

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I see what's happening to Europe it's

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very sad to me , but they have a

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problem with immigration they have a

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problem with energy . You have

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windmills all over the place ,

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windmills , you lose your shirt . Any

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country with windmills is a loser , OK ?

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You just have to look . If they have

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windmills , they're a loser because you

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lose , you lose money with windmills .

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Yeah , please go ahead . Go ahead . Who

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are you with ? John Fergus Media . Yeah ,

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that's right . Original name . What was

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your name before ? John Ferguson . Go

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ahead , John . Uh , two domestic

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questions , sir . The first one is

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Exxon and Chevron integrated all US

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just announced record profits second

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quarter . Unbelievable for , for Exxon ,

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for instance , 14 million and highest

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they've had in over a decade . For

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Chevron for the quarter , highest in

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history . By 12 times on the back you

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saw that , yes , I mean it's

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unbelievable on the back . I don't like

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it . Workers paying higher debts . What

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is they're making too much money . OK .

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Based on a shortage , they're making

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too much money . I don't like it , and

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I'm , I should be the last one to say

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because I'm a big free enterprise guy .

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Nobody bigger . And , you know , when

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you're gonna see oil when we're

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finished with Iran , you're gonna see

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the prices drop through the floor , but

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they made too much money , too much

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money . Chevron , too much money .

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ExxonMobil , too much , too much money .

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When you look at one company where they

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made 12 times what they made the year

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before , they're going to give some of

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that back to the public , and they

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better cut the retail price , the

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consumer price . Too much money .

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You're surprised I'm saying it ? I'll

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say it loud and clear . I'm not happy

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about it . Go ahead . Go ahead . Just ,

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just one for us , for those of us here

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that live in Washington DC with our

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families like I do . The renaissance of

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the city that you've been able to do in

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18 months is incredible . I hope you

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heard that . Did you hear that ,

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everybody ? The renaissance of

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Washington DC in 1516 months is

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incredible , and it is , it's clean ,

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it's safe , and you haven't seen

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anything yet . We're replacing all of

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the grass that hasn't been replaced in

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the fields , all the beautiful fields

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where the grass is , you know , grass

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is like humans . Uh , it has a life .

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This grass hasn't been changed in 100

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years . Uh , we're doing all the fields .

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We're doing , uh , all the , most of

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the graffiti is moved , but the most

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important thing is it's been beautified .

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We did 78 monuments and fountains and

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waterfalls . And they went from being

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horrible , mostly graffiti , and most

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of them for 25 years never worked ,

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they haven't worked , and it's a

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renaissance , like you use the word

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renaissance , but it's a renaissance ,

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but the biggest thing is . We have very

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little crime now . This was the crime

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capital , frankly , of the world . It

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was the most unsafe capital of any

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country in the world . Now it's one of

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the safest and it's one of the safest

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places in the United States , and

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people are coming down . You see it ,

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the tourism in Washington , everyone's

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safe now . Nobody , nobody's getting

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mugged , shot . We used to lose 3

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people a week . Death . That's the

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least , I mean , it's 3 people in terms

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of death . 150 people a year were

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killed . They come down from Iowa ,

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they come from Indiana . Mom , I'm

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looking at the Washington Monument .

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I'm looking at . And they end up

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getting killed . You call their parents .

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I'm sorry . It doesn't happen anymore .

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We don't have that anymore . We play

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we're rough , but we don't have that

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anymore . Our military has been

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unbelievable , and they work very well

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with the DC police , but our military

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came in . The general people that we

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know so well , general , right , they

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don't play games and we , we got the

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gangs out . We removed almost 5000

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people who are career criminals who

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came in with Biden with the open

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borders , a lot of them . And they're

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no longer here . We sent them back to

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their countries . You've got to say ,

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have you ever seen such a

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transformation of it's unbelievable if

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you live here . It's just you don't

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wanna go back . And now you can walk to

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work , you can walk to the White House .

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The people in the White House , they

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work in the , they tell me , sir ,

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thank you , they're thanking me all the

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time . They used to have to take Uber

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and the Uber would be robbed , OK ?

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They weren't even said they'd go to a

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restaurant . And they'd feel safe in a

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restaurant and then the restaurant

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would be robbed . Do you know the

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restaurants were all closing and now

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you can't if you're a restaurateur ,

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you can't get a a restaurant . You , I

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mean you literally can't . The

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restaurants are booming . Crime is down

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92% , maybe more . I want to get down

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100% . You know , the greatest

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statistic though that you have is that

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2% of the people create 91% of the

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crime . You could really handle that .

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And we've moved almost 5000 people out .

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They're criminals , career criminals .

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We moved that in some cases they're in

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jail . In some cases they were so bad

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they came in through Biden . They're so

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bad we don't want to move them out . We

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want to put them in jails because we're

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afraid they're going to come back in

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somehow . So I appreciate you saying

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that

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if they come in and try to roll it back .

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Well , you had a mayor who's , I guess

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she's a communist . I mean , she says

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she's a Socialist , but I guess she's a

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communist based on what she says , but

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I have not met her yet . I look forward

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to meeting her . Uh , would I

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federalize ? Basically you're saying

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federalize DC . Well , I'm allowed to

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do that . Would I do it if they want to ,

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we took something that was in deep

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trouble . It was a graffiti-filled ,

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crime-filled mess . We turned it into

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Shangri-La . We turned it into a great

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place . Look outside . Look what's

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happening . Look at the beautiful

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ballroom and military center . It's a

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military center , much more than we

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have a drone port on top . We look at

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the grass in front of the White House

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being all replaced with the top stuff .

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The parks are all being replaced . It

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starts very soon actually . We'll do

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one at a time . It's about 700 acres of

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parks . We're all gonna have brand new ,

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the best grass you can get . Scott's ,

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you know , Scott's ? Scott's Miracle

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Gro . They're doing it . They do great

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grass . What can I tell you ? I gotta

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give them a plug because they did the

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White House for free . Sir , a friend

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of mine , a guy that he's terrific .

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We'd like to give you a new grass at

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the White House . I said , I'll take it .

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How much ? He said , Free . I'll take

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it . Thank you . Thank you very much ,

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Mr . President . This is at least the

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5th time you've turned off airstrikes

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against Iran since April to negotiate .

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What is your message to the American

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people who are wondering what has

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changed this time ? Why shouldn't it ?

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Well , you don't know . I don't know .

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I think we're going to maybe get

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something , but I want to give them

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every last chance before decapitation .

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Very tough to do what we have planned ,

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still planned . We'll see what happens ,

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but it's a very , very tough thing to

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do . I think I'm very proud of the fact

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that I will give people , I'll give

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people a chance . This is a big move to

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do an attack that big . On the contrary ,

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I'd rather not do it now we've already

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through lots of large attacks , but

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they were normal large . Hopefully

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they'll come to their senses because

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what happened you cannot have a nuclear

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weapon , but hopefully they'll come to

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their senses , so they called me . And

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they said , please don't attack . We'll

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make a deal . That's the real truth ,

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and everyone knows it and who wouldn't

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call ? And they found out through

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leaks and sleazebags , you know , a lot

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of sleazebags , leak leakers , leakers

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should be put in jail . They should ,

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they have to strengthen up the laws for

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leakers , but in this case leakers

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helped because they said the severity

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of the attack . And Iran knew it .

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They knew what was coming . It was

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going to come last night and it would

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have gone on for a long time . And

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there'd be essentially very little left .

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There'd be nothing left . And If

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I'm given a chance to let a lot of

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people live . I want to give that

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chance , so I , I'm under no time

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constraint , you know , I , I don't

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happen to be running , but a lot of

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very good Republicans are running , and

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you have a sick ideology taking place

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right now that , you know , hopefully

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they'll be defeated because they'll

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destroy the country if they ever take

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over . But this desk is like a blocking

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desk no matter who gets in . If it's

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bad , I block , and I'm good at

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blocking . If it's bad , if it's stupid

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things like the things they want to do ,

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we want to get rid of the US Senate . I

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don't like a lot of senators , to be

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honest with you . I don't want to get

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rid of the Senate . We want to get rid

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of the Supreme Court . They want to put

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now 21 or 23 people , that , that's the

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real on the Supreme Court or get rid of

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it . They want to get rid of the

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presidency . They want to have an

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appointed executive running . That's a

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communist thing , you know , that's a

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communist thing . These are sick people

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and you know I said it the other day ,

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and it maybe doesn't sound that

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important , but when a country goes bad ,

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like look at the blue cities , what do

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they have in common aside from massive

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crime , much more crime . The

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Republicans have very little crime .

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But what do the blue cities have in

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mind ? And also you can say this with

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nations when they go bad . The blue

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cities have something in common crime ,

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high crime , vicious , violent crime .

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But what do they have in common ?

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They're all . They're filthy . The

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streets are , their streets smell ,

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their storefronts are broken , their

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trees are all gross . Everything about

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the place is , and I don't want to

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mention any specific city . It's really

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all of them . But you go into these

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cities that are blue , they're crime

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ridden , and they're filthy . They're

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like Washington DC was a year and a

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half ago with graffiti all over the

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place , with crime all over the place ,

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with people afraid to be here . You had

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to be ashamed of your Capitol , some of

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the most beautiful buildings built in

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the real time , like you look at the

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Supreme Court building and they put

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graffiti on it . The most beautiful

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columns I've ever seen . In fact , our

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columns are gonna be nicer at the

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ballroom . I said , I want the Supreme

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Court but better . But you look at

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those columns , how magnificent , and

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then you see graffiti on the side of

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the building . No artistry , just bad

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people . But the one thing they all

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have in common , crime . There are two

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things , crime , but they're disgusting .

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They're filthy . The streets are . They

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have people lying all over the street

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doing , you know what . They're all the

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same And this is what we're going to

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put in it , not going to happen in our

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country .

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Go ahead . Yeah , in the back .

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Go ahead . Well , let him go .

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He was very rude to you , right ? Go

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ahead . Who are you with ? I'm with

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Real Americans . So when a group such

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as the Haitians lose their temporary

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protective status , how soon should

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they be bussed and flown out ? Well ,

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we had a big victory in court on

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temporary , you know , the protective

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status . And I largely leave it up to

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my people , but we've had people here

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for many years and they were here

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temporarily , you know , we had people

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coming in and they've been here for

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many , many years and they had a

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tragedy in their country . They had

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sometimes it was storms , it was , you

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know , it was hurricanes . And they

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come in and you know they're here for

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12 years , 14 years , so something's

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got to be done . Yeah , please have you

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spoken to Jeanine Pirro about her

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decision to drop ? No , Jeanine Pirro

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made a mistake . There was vandalism .

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I just told you we did , I think '78 .

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1 of the things was the reflecting pool .

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Hasn't worked since 1922 because it

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always leaked . It always leaked from

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1922 , you know , it's the largest ,

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longest pool ever and all that . The

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concept is beautiful , but it always

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leaked because of the size , because of

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maintenance , whatever , but it was

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built in 1922 , and from the day it was

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built , it leaked . Biden spent

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$58 million . Barack Hussein

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Obama spent much more than that . He

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said , I have an idea . Let's take the

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river from , let's take the water from

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the Potomac . So they took the water

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from the Potomac and it was putrid . It

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was putrid . It was a disaster . Biden

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was a disaster . I said I'm going to

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get that fixed along with Doug Burgum

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and Department of Interior , and we

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worked hard on that . Now we worked

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hard on all 70 , it's actually I think

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81 now . You saw the new horses that

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just opened by the bridge with the gold .

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That was the way they were many years

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ago . Now they look better than they

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did many years ago , but these

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monuments look better than they did

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when they were originally built , not

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just a little fix up . We made them the

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way they were , plus . And everyone's

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so proud . The biggest , uh , one of

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the bigger jobs was not really the

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biggest , believe it or not , but one

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of the biggest was the reflecting pool ,

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and we did a great job . We sandblasted

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the stone outside it was granite , so

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it has a long life . We , uh , did a

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great job . We got very expensive

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material to put on top of the surface

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that always leaked because it was stone .

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It was a stone surface , always leaked ,

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and we put it on . And it was beautiful .

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Now , we have photographs or tapes

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like moving cameras , right ? We have

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them where people are on the side ,

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cutting it with a box knife . So

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now I'm not saying I was 100% thrilled

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with uh the contractor , but the

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contractor was rushing . We wanted to

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get it open for July 4th , and we got

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it done . But in addition , there was

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vandalism . Number one , look at the

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grass where the grass was , uh ,

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all knocked out with a very , very

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powerful , uh . Ingredient that we know

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very well what it is . I'm not gonna

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say the name because people get ideas ,

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but , and they put a terrible phrase ,

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I won't say that either , but a

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terrible phrase on a massive piece of

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grass that we had just replaced kill

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the grass . We had to replace the grass ,

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a lot of grass . In addition , they

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took knives or cutters and they cut the

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material material . And they put their

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hands and they pulled it . And there

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was also some maintenance things that

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we would have routinely fixed , but we

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had that up and it was perfect . And

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then you had the bubblers which get rid

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of the , you know , the what forms in

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the water , and that works great , but

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they turned it off because of the fight

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because it competed a little bit of

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noise during the fight . They turned it

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off . And it grows very rapidly in the

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water , but that actually works very

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well , and that's all . So now we're

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just about set to reopen it and we had

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to , we had to replace cut areas where

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they cut it and ripped it , but there's

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a tape , and Jesse Waters , by the way ,

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did a whole big thing on it . There's a

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tape that's out there that I posted on

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Truth . Where you have people leaning

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over the side , the weakest part

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because of the flexibility , you know ,

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it moves , it's very complicated , it

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moves , and the softest part has to be

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flexible , and that's the stuff you can

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cut , and these guys knew what they

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were doing , and they cut all the way

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along the base , cut , cut , cut .

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Now , When Janine looked at it , it was

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the day after the 4th of July with the

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largest fireworks display in the world ,

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and the stuff was laying all over the

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pool , the fireworks , because they ,

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they use the pool as one of the , and

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it was all over the pool was the day

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after , very shortly thereafter . But

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that was working beautifully and it was

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vandalized . And if you look at the

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tape now , the tape isn't a great tape

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in the sense that it's a little hard to

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say who it exactly was , but it was

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people cutting this very expensive

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material , waterproofing material .

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Anyway , it looked beautiful , and then

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they cut it and they vandalized and we

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weren't necessarily thrilled with the

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contractor , but they did a job and

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they were fixing any problems , but

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then it got carried away because the

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judge was extremely unfriendly to

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Janine and frankly I think she choked .

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Because the judge was really vicious .

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Instead of going after the people that

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did it , the judge went after her and

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went after her department , and I guess

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she choked . I don't know what the hell

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happened . I don't know what you , you

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don't , you're fake news . Don't ,

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don't ever talk again . You're fake

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news , one of the , one of the worst in

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the business . Fortunately nobody

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watches you , but something happened .

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There was vandalism there and there

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were some things from the contractor

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which you , which we would fix , but

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it's almost complete and when it opens ,

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it's incredible . It's really

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incredible , but remember this . It

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leaked from 1922 . It opened in

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1922 . They never solved the leak

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problem because it was stone and the

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cracks with the stone , it , it's not a

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stone is really not a waterproofing

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material . We essentially use a very

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high grade swimming pool type material ,

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which was my idea . I was very proud of

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that idea . And by the way , I didn't

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know the contractor . Everyone said the

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contract . I didn't know the contractor ,

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but when it was completed . It was

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perfect , but then somebody went in and

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cut it just like they did the grass ,

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you know , nobody talks about the grass .

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The grass have helicopter pictures of

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what they did . Wasn't it '87 ?

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Right . Do you know what they did ,

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right ? Did you see what they did ? Did

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you see what they wrote ? What did they

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write ? 87 , I'm sorry , 8647 . That's

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right , 8647 . They 86 ,

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so it's 8647 . They didn't do 45 , at

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least they left 45 , but they and

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massive letters on the grass , 8647 .

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And nobody talked about that was

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vandalism too . We had to replace all

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that grass . It was a tremendous amount

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of grass because when you hit , hit it

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with this poison , it's acid , it kills

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the grass no matter how you can't even

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clean it , even if you got there right

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after it's very powerful so I know it

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well , so uh .

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People did great damage to this thing

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because they're sick people . You know

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who's representing the man is a man

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from Crewe . A sleazebag who's been

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suing me for my whole political hasn't

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won , he's lost all the time , but

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crude , do you know what CRE is ? It's

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a third rate operation that's supposed

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to be a charity , but it's not . They

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used it for political reasons , so . We

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should be proud of our monuments and we

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should be proud of our city and you

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know that was opened before they did

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the damage . It was open . It never

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looked more beautiful . It looked like

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a mirror and that's what it was

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supposed to be . It was a very dark

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color because otherwise you don't see

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it as a reflecting pool and it looked

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beautiful . Well , it'll look just as

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beautiful . It'll be fixed and open

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over the next 1.5 , 2 weeks . One

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more . Who are you rooting for in

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Michigan ? Well , you have a , a very

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interesting group who I really voted

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for is Mike Rogers because I think he's

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gonna be a great senator , but you have

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a , a communist versus a socialist ,

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that's the way I look at it . You have

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a communist versus a socialist . It

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looks like the communist is leading ,

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we're talking about for the Democrat

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primary , but for the Republican , you

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have a very good man . And uh he should

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be able to , he should be able to win ,

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yeah . OK , one more in the back , yeah ,

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go ahead . Lafayette Park , it's

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great . Do we do a good job in

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Lafayette Park ? So Lafayette Park is

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right across from the other side of the

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street . And I made a donation of $10

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million . That was me personally , and .

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It's unbelievable . It was so and so

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disgusting . Like everything liberal .

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Becomes and disgusting . So

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socialism . Liberalism , progressivism ,

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you know , the word progressive is such

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a nice word they love using it , but

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the radical left isn't letting them use

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that word anymore . But Lafayette Park

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is a large park . It was known as the

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gateway to the White House . And it was

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disgusting . Uh , the monument is

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beautiful , graffiti all over it . Uh ,

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I won't say what was on the sidewalk ,

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but horrible , horrible , horrible ,

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disgusting stuff . And not only did we

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fix it , we have military standing

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there watching it and if anybody

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touches it , we , that was the one

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mistake with the reflecting pond . They

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hadn't put up the cameras yet . They

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had enough up because you see what's

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happening . But if they would have had

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them up , uh , we would have had a lot

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of , it would have been a lot easier ,

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but , and I was disappointed with

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Jeanine Pirro , really disappointed

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with Jeanine Pirro . She , uh , she

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folded like an umbrella and people get

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away with things and it's it's , it's a

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disgrace , but we're very proud of

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Lafayette Park . Now we have a big

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decision to make . Do we take the

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pavers that are red , you know , the

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red brick pavers , and do we change

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them into a granite . It's a gray

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granite . They're beautiful , but

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they're not the original , so we're

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gonna have to make that decision . You

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have a good sense of taste . What would

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you do , huh ? Yes , it . You would

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change the red brick into the granite .

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The granite is much stronger , holds up

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much better , different color . Change

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it . OK . They're considering firing ,

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Mr . President . Go ahead , please .

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Thank you , Mr . President . Today is

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the MLB trade deadline , and there's

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been talk lately about a potential

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lockout next year . Um , I think over

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salary cap , uh , salary cap . Do you ,

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uh , support the salary cap in the MLB ,

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and what are your thoughts ? Well ,

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we're gonna talk about that at a

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different time , you know , it's a

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complex situation , but not too complex

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for me . Yeah , please . What did you

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think of the Nationals trading Luis

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Garcia to the Yankees one ? Luis

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Garcia from the Washington Nationals to

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the New York Yankees . New York Yankees .

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What do you think of the job Brian

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Cashman's doing ? Well , I've known

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Brian Cashman for a long time . Look ,

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he's done a good job . I think Randy

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Levine is great . He's a great

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executive . And by the way , the NIL or

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whatever it is , uh . Is very close to

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getting solved college sports , and

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Randy Levine and Nick Saban and a whole

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group of people have done an

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unbelievable job . That was a case that

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should have been appealed by the NCAA

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and they never appealed it . Whoever

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ran the NCAA , they never appealed it .

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The original case was thrown out by a

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judge that knew nothing about sports ,

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nothing about sports or college sports .

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And that case should have been appealed .

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They didn't appeal it . They didn't

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know . I , I think they forgot

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something happened . In college sports

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was and is in turmoil right now ,

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turmoil . And Randy

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Levine from the Yankees , the president

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of the Yankees , got together with a

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lot of people . We had it right here ,

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60 people , 60 people that were in that

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world , including legal people , and ,

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uh , from football , it was Nick Saban

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who won 6 or 7 championships ,

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fantastic coach and very respected ,

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and many other people , very , very

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respected . And we have a bipartisan

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deal as of right now , so we'll see

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what happens . We have to , they'll be

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voting on it soon . I hope they get it .

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I hope they get it done . Thank you all

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very much . Thank you . Thank you .

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Thank you for that question .