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This is Dan Caplis. Normally my
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at W Denver at six o'clock each
afternoon four to six tonight. We're staying

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late because this farce of a so
called big boy press conference continues and we

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want to be able to continue to
bring it to you this afternoon, and

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so we're going to go back to
it. At this point, Ryan,

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where are we going to pick this
up? Are we picking it up live

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or with earlier questioning? Okay,
so we're going to hand this just shows

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what a first this thing is.
We'll pick it up. This is a

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bit delayed, and we'll play it
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can. Fire away a lot of
concern that Donald Trump may we can NATO

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stop supporting Ukraine or push Ukraine to
give up territories to Russia. They're correct,

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and you yourself was warning just two
minutes ago about it. So my

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question is, do you think that
Europe will be left on its own if

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Donald Trump wins the election. What's
your advice to European leaders to prepare for

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possible US disengagement? Pullo? I
think how can I say this about sounding

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too self survey. I'm not having
any of my European allies country say Joe,

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don't run. What I hear them
say is you've gotta win. I

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can't. I come forward maybe a
disaster, a peace and prosperity with that

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before I think he said in one
of his rallies, don't hold me to

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this recently where NATO. I just
learned about NATO or something to that.

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Facts. No, what he said
is foreign policy has never been his strong

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point. Putin didn't go into Ukraine. He seems to have an affinity to

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people who are authoritarian that worries as
I tell you, from whole, that

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worries Europe, that worries Poland.
And nobody, including the people of Poland,

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think that if he wins in Ukraine, is going to stop in Ukraine.

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So that's going to be the end
of it. And so what I

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can say is, I think I'm
the best qualified person to do the job,

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to make sure that Ukraine is not
fall, that Ukraine succeeds, that

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the European Alliance stays strong. You
may recall no one was talking about Finland

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joining NATO. I remember talking to
put and when right after we got elected

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in Geneva, and he was talking
about what we should do. We couldn't

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be an Eastern europe at center.
And I said, you're looking for the

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fidelization of Ukraine, because you're going
to get the natoization of Finland. And

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about four weeks later I got a
called, now that's not true, probably

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five months later from the President of
Finland. Could he kind of see me

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in my office I had. I
invited him to the Oval office. We

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sat down and talked. He said
he wanted to join NATO. Could I

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help? And I did? Wasn't
automatic. And then I got a call

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from the Swede. He's just like
filabuster. And so Finland joined NATO eight

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hundred mile border as a significant and
they're already to allen Lord, but they

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weren't part of NAVIS. And you
heard, I think you heard. Maybe

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I can't recover he said a public
in our clothes meeting. But he wouldn't

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mind be repeated. He said,
we decided in Finland, the people of

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Finland decided they had to be part
of NATO with our interest because of the

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joint ability to be together just to
suade any attack on Finland. And the

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same thing with Sweden. It took
a lot of selling to some folks,

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particularly in Turkey and other places,
to agree to the expansion, but they

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expanded and they were held a lot
stronger because of it. We're more secure

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because of it. And by the
way, I was able to get fifty

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other nations fifty five zero to support
Ukraine fifty. We were able to bring

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about a coalition between of Europe and
Asia, Japan and South Korea. I

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just met with We talked about August
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New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, the United States. We're making

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the world safer instrum because we have
to work with a new arrangement that exists

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in the world. The Cold War
is over, the post war era is

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over. What is going to replace
it? And I respectfully suggests I have

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a pretty good idea what that should
be. I've convince a lot of people

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to follow it, and we're just
going to get stronger. David Sanger.

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Yeah, Putin didn't go into Ukraine
on Trump's watching. Thank you, mister

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President. Be nice David as President. The NATO declaration that was issued yesterday,

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that was very notable because it described
China as a decisive enabler of the

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war in Ukraine for its provision of
critical goods to the Russians. That's part

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of a broader partnership that seems to
have cemented in place in the past two

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or three years. I think one
that you were a little bit doubtful of

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when we asked you about it some
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know whether you have a strategy now
of trying to interrupt the partnership between China

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and Russia, and whether or not
in a second term you would pursue that

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if you could describe that strategy to
us, and along the way, could

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you also tell us whether you think, just to follow up on Felicia's question,

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that if you were in a room
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were three years ago or with President
that a few years from now you will

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be able to go and negotiate with
them handle them one on one look could

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happened after the last one first,
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others raise the future of China's involvement, what they're going to do, what

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they're doing with Russia in terms of
accommodating, facilitating them. They're getting access

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to additional they're not supplying, they're
not supplying weapons themselves, They're supplying mechanisms

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for them to be able to get
weapons. And China's position is basically and

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I've spent more time with Ching than
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being vice president, all the way
through for real and by the way I

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handed all my notes, I would
explain Hunters deal. But my point is

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that she believes that China is a
large enough market that they can entice any

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country, including European countries, to
invest there and return for or commitments from

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Europe to do ABC or D or
not to do certain things. What's happened

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is we had a long discussion about
what we cannot. We have to make

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clear. China has to understand that
if they are supplying Russia with information and

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capacity, along with working with North
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that they're not going to benefit economically
as a consequence of that by getting the

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kind of investment they're looking for.
And so, for example, we're in

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a situation where and we've a very
established direct contact with China. After that

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member of the balloon quote unquote going
down and all of a sudden things came

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to an end. Well, we
set up a new mechanism. There's a

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direct line between she and me and
our military has direct access to one another,

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contact one another or we have problems. The issue is that we have

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to make sure that she understands there's
a price to pay for undercutting both the

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specific basin as well as Europe,
and it relates to Russia and dealing with

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Ukraine, and so we for example, if you want to invest in China,

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as you know, you know this
area really well, trying to invest

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in China, you have to get
a fifty percent Chinese owner. You have

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to make sure that you do by
their rules and you can't you don't have

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the authority, and that you have
to provide all access to all the data

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and information you have. There was
a while there, as we call the

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last administration and other administrations where the
access to that market was enticely enough to

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get companies to come in because they
had access to over a billion people in

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a market, not a billion,
but a lot of people in the market,

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and so they were doing it.
But that got curtailed when we started

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saying we're going to play by the
same rules. For example, the idea

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they don't abide by the international rules
related to subsidizing products by the government funding.

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So strategy is just to put everybody
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the United States without a significant terror. Others are doing the same thing around

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the world. But it is a
concern. It is a concern that you

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have both China, North Korea,
Russia ran countries that are not necessarily coordinated

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in the past, looking to figure
out how they can have impact up that

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impact here in sixty the kitchen of
your Denver do. But I'm not prepared

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to talk about the detail of it
in public called boy press conference, which

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has been a very thin you'll see
that kind of first. In my opinion,

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some of our European friends are going
to be curtailing there involve investment in

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Russia. I mean, excuse me, in China. As long as China

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continues to have this indirect success help
to Russia in terms of being able to

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help their economy as well as as
well as help them in as a consequence

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that their ability to fight in in
Ukraine. The other thing we talked a

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lot about is that and I raised
it and there was I didn't hear any

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I can't swear that everyone agreed,
because not everyone got to talk about it.

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But we haven't. We need a
new industrial policy in the West.

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For example, we talked if you
just joined us the EU, very very

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NATO stage dements to be able to
begin to build their own munition capacity list

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to their own capacity for weapons and
the ability to be came as a surprise

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to some of us how we had
fallen behind in the West in terms of

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the ability to construct new material,
new weaponry, and new new everything from

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from vehicles to weapons systems, and
so one of the things that came out

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of this was we're going to be
meeting again with a number of my colleagues,

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my European colleagues, is what do
we do to increase the capacity of

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the West, particularly in Europe and
Japan, to be able to generate kind

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of ability to produce their own weapons
systems, not sess for themselves, but

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to be able to generate that it's
the same less of service. But Russia

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is trying to figure out that they
went to Sisy kitchen w and this was

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supposed to be in Korea Joe Biden
big boys. Instead it's been a four

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buster, tightly continued to have all
the defense of very few questions or follow

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ups about it as well. Is
incapacity answered on whether you would be ready

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to go deal with Putin and She
two or three years from now. I'm

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ready to deal with them now and
three years from now. What a tough

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question. The like I said,
I'm dealing with She right now and direct

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contact with I have no good reason
to talk to Putin right now. There's

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not much that he is prepared to
do in terms of accommodating any change in

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his behavior. But there isn't any
world leader I'm not prepared to deal with.

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But I understand that the generic point
is Putin ready to talk. I'm

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not ready to talk to Putins unless
Putin's ready to change his behavior and the

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idea. Look, Putin's got a
problem, first of all, in this

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war that he is supposedly have won. And by the way, I think.

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Don't hold me the exact number,
but I think that Russia had seventeen

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point three percent of Ukraine that they've
conquered now at seventeen point four. I

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mean in terms of percentage of territory. They've not been very successful. They've

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called horrible damage and loss of life, but they've also lost over three hundred

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and fifty thousand troops military killed or
wounded, if over a million people,

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particularly young people with technical capability leading
Russia because they see no future there.

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They've got a problem. But what
they do have control of is they are

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very good at controlling and running the
public outcry. That relates to how they

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use mechanisms to communicate with people.
They lie like health in the constituencies,

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they lie like kill about what's going
on. And so the idea that we're

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going to be able to fundamentally change
Russian in their term is not likely.

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But one thing for certain, if
we allow Russia to succeed in Ukraine,

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they're not stopping the Ukraine. I
recommend. I know you know this because

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you've We've written about it. Read
poop speech after they moved in. What

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it was all about in Kiev.
It wasn't about just anyway read what he's

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an objective is didn't go in when
he was present anyway. But so I

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think that I'm prepared to talk to
any leader who wants to talk, including

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if Putin called me he wanted to
talk. Last time I talked to Putin

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was trying to get him to work
on an arms control agreement related to nuclear

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weapons of space. Yeah, and
after that to Ukraine. So my point

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is, I'm prepared to talk to
anybody, but I don't see any inclination.

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There is an inclination on the part
of the Chinese to keep in contact

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with me because they're not sure where
this all goes. And look what's happened

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in Asia. We have strengthened the
Asian Pacific area more than anyone else has.

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We you know, we just put
together with today we had I brought

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on. I asked my NATO allies
that we bring on the group from the

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South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Japan In Yeah, Australia, I

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I already mentioned in Australia and I
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fourteen leaders of the Pacific island nations
and we've slowed down. What's going on

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there. We've slowed down China's reach
because there's a lot of work to do.

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This is a moving target and I
don't take it lightly. I'm from

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MPR here on sixt thirty kidsch It'll
be a Denver. Thank you, mister

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President us Mahalid with NPR. I
have two questions. Earlier, you spoke

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about the ceasefire plan between Israel and
Hamas we're now looking at ten months of

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war, and I'm curious if there's
anything that you feel personally you wish you

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would have done differently over the course
of the war. And Then, secondly,

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if I may, I want to
ask you about your presidential campaign.

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I remember covering your campaign in twenty
twenty and there was a moment where you

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refer to yourself as a quote bridge
candidacy, a transition to a younger generation

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of leaders. I want to understand
what changed two things. So let's go

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back to two good questions. When
you talked about what I have changed anything

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is happening with Israel and the Palestinians
in the Palestine movement. The answers,

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as you recall from the very beginning, I immediately I went to Israel,

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but I also got a media contact
of Ossisi in Egypt. I met with

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the King of Jordan, I met
with I met with most of the Arab

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leaders to try to get a consensus
going as to what had to be done

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to deal with getting more aid and
food and medicine into in into the Gaza

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strip. And we pushed it really
hard, and Israel occasionally was less than

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cooperative. Number One, the Israeli
Wark Cabinet. I've been I've been in

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Israel since gold in my ear.
I've some of the reporters around here covering

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all the time. I've heard me
say this. The last first time I

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met a Golden Air, I sat
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her assistant was rabbi sitting next to
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there's no ultimate answer the two state
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it would be a process for a
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Arab nations to particularly from Egypt all
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a position where they would cooperate in
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peace in Gaza without Israeli forced sustained
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the beginning, what's the day after
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Gaza has to be the end of
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no occupation by Israel and the Gaza
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us to access get in and out
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needed there. I've been disappointed that
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have not succeeded as well, like
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hopeful that would be more successful.
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immediately after the massacres that occurred was
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I said to Israel is a member
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make the same mistake America made after
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anywhere. Go after the people who
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I still get criticized for it,
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and trying to unite Afghanistan. Once
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Laden, we should have moved on
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ever going to united unite that country. I've been over every inch of that

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not every inch, the entirety,
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the north. I said, don't
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think that's what you should be doing
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the bad guys sin War in company. And all was criticism about I wouldn't

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provide when the weapons they needed.
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bombs. They cannot be used in
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human tragedy and damage. But remember
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on Israel from with rockets and ballistic
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Arab nations as well as as well
as Europe, and nothing happened, nothing

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got hurt. Sent an incredible lesson
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least. So there's a lot of
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been able to convince the israelis to
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have a chance. Now. It's
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walk away from going after Sinemar and
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know better than most there is a
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the Palestidians about Hamas. Hamas is
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lot of moving parts. I just
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we get as much done as we
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fire and get those And by the
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then again there are better than a
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anyway, Boss didn't go in Israel
and Trump candidacy in twenty twenty. You

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referred to yourself as being a bridge
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democratic leaders. And I wanted to
know what changed. What changed was the

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good question gravity of the situation I
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foreign policy, and domestic division.
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anybody's mouth. The most presidential story
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than most any president since Johnson than
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of legislation passed. What I realized
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equipped me to have the wi them't
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get things done. I got more
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All these other Democrats are incompetent that
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tomorrow or if if you've had a
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and I did have an inheritor what
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things along. Anyway, it's going
to change. Last question, Haley Bull

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scripts no, Josh Weinegrove, I'm
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I'll do two more questions, thank
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your colleagues, Democrats in the Hill
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how you're thinking of this right now. It seems like your answer is clear.

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But they're watching how things go tonight
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Texas and Nevada. Are you thinking
that about whether how the next week or

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two goes would inform you? Am
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that way about how the next two
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Or are you fully determined on running
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determined on running, but I think
it's important that I realized I lay fears

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I've seen let them see me out
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know, for the longest time it
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unscripted. Biden's not prepared to in
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is I've been doing. I think
we won twenty major events from Wisconsin to

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North Carolina anyway to demonstrate that I'm
going out in the areas where you think

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we can win, where we can
persuade people to move our way or people

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already there. Look then, is
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anybody's had a long We have well
over one thousand volunteers knocking on doors,

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making phone calls, making tens of
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I forget exactly how might I want
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out I'm off, But we have
scores of headquarters and all the toss up

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States. We're organized, we're moving, and that's awful hard to replace in

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in their term. And so here's
the other thing. I was in the

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sending a long time. I'm very
proud of what I've done in the Senate.

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I was chairman on the Formulations Committee
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was chairman of a ranking member and
chairman of the Judiciary Committee. I'm going

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to be going down to the Johnston
Library anyway. I'm going to be going

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around making the case of the things
that I think we have to finish and

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how we can't afford to lose what
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rights, of liberties, women's rights, and that little button we have control

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guns not girls. The idea we're
sitting around this WKAMO is so good as

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well. We're sitting around more children
from him are killed at by a bullet

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and any other cause of death.
The United States of America? What hell

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are we doing? What are we
doing? We got a candidate said I

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promise, and don't worry. I'm
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going to do anything. You got
a Supreme Court vice most conservative court in

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American history. Oh, this is
ridiculous. There's so much we can do.

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Still, I'm determined to get it
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by the way, I'll end this
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do that, Haley. It has
to come up to But the I remember

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I made a speech on democracy in
Philadelphia and Independence Hall speech and I'm not

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being critical. Just observe you,
the bulk of the press, what else

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he talking about that for democrat?
And you did. Democracy's not an issue.

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Democracy is not an issue except the
pulling down. So sixty percent of

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the people knew I was right.
I thought I was right. I'm not

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asking you a question you don't have
to answer, obviously, but do you

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think our democracy is under siege based
on this court? Do you think democracy

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see based on Project twenty twenty five? Do you think he means what he

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says when he says he's going to
go away to the civil service, eliminate

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the Department of Education? Makes you
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and that's the other another generation.
I've got to finish this job.

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I've got to finish this job because
there's so much steak. You have the

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discussions of the past few days with
your press secretary about the question of health

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exams, and you said you take
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Are you open to taking another physical
or test before the election? Governor

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Whitmer of Michigan for ins instead,
it wouldn't hurt to take a test.

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Well, look two things. One, I've taken three significant and intense neurological

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exams neurology in each case was recently
February. And they say I'm a good

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shape okay, although I do have
a little problem with my left foot because

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of father's sensitive because I broke my
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I'm good. I'm tested every single
day by my neurological capaccity the decisions I

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make every day. Yeah, And
you think my staff all of you talk

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to my staff sometimes my staff talks
a lot. But the fact of the

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matter is, I don't think you
have them telling you that all the major

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ideas we've undertaken haven't been in part
initiated by me. I remember with the

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staff, I said, I'm going
to go to South Korea. We're going

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to get that chip. What are
you're doing? I'm going to get Japan

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and Korea back together again after essentially
having hostilities toward one another since the end

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of World War Two. I'm going
to move and see that we can expand

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it. You know, the only
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creates a little bit of wisdom if
you pay attention. And so the point

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I'm making is, I think it's
important that if if mine is, a

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neurologist tells me he thinks I need
another exam. And by the way,

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I've laid every bit of the record
out, and the thing wrong, God

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asked Trump for this, Okay,
I laid it all out. Every single

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day I'm surrounded by good docs.
If they think there's a problem, I

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promise you. Or if I don't
think it's a problem, I think I

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should have a neurological exam again,
I'll do it. No one's suggesting that

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to me. Now, no one
to ask you another question. No matter

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what I did, no one's going
to be satisfied. Did you have seven

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knocks? Did you have two?
Would you have? Did you do this?

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How many times you? So I
am not opposed. If my doctors

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tell me they should I should have
another neurological exam, I'll do it.

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But that's where I am uh Haley
Bull scripts Haley got in. Thank you,

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mister president. You're making decisions on
a day to day basis when it

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comes to support for Ukraine. Does
that mean you have not closed the door

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on further considering lifting restrictions for US
made weapons inside Russia? And if I

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met, your convention is coming up
where your delegates are pledged to make you

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the official nominee. If they have
second thoughts, are they free to vote

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their conscience? Good question. Obviously
they're free to do another they want.

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But I got overwhelming support, overwhelming
support I won. How I forget how

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many votes I won in the primary. Overwhelming And so tomorrow follow of a

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sudden I show up at the convention, everybody says we want somebody else.

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That's democratic process. It's not gonna
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You vote for someone else. Sure, Look, I'll end this with

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us. I serve to to send
it a long time. He said that

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three times or more. I understand
the impetus of candidate running for local office

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and whether they think top if they
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of Delaware, which was a very
at least a purpose, it was a

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red state when I started in terms
of ware now talk red and blue.

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I don't recall most of the Democratic
presidents winning my state when I was a

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candidate. The truth of the matter
is, I understand the self interest in

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a candidate. If they think that, you know, run over with Biden

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the topic is going to hurt them, then they're going to run away.

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I get it. But so far, go and look at the polling data

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in their states. Look at the
end, and by the way, I

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think you'd all acknowledge. And you're
all experts. I'm not bevious to listening

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to about the president. There are
your experts on this stuff. How accurate

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does anybody think the polls are these
days? I can give a serious of

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poll where you have likely voters don't
believe the meet versus Trump, where I

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win all the time, but the
unlikely voters that's all. The bottom line

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is all a pulling data right now, which I think is premature because the

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campaign really hasn't even started. I
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Most of the time it's done start
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What year are you living? In? A lot can happen, But I

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think I'm the best call. I
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to govern, and I think I'm
the best qualified to win. But there

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are other people too. But it's
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And you know we talk about you
know, money raised, we're not

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doing bad. Forget if I've two
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we're doing well. So with that, you haven't even want to follow

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up a that you just ask me. Yes, you earlier explained confidence and

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your vice president if your team came
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fare better against former President Donald Trump, would you reconsider your decision to stay

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in the race. No, let's
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you can win. Wow, me, don't say that, No bulls.

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Wow. This ends tonight's press conference. Wow. Wow, Hey, thanks

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for being with us. Normally you'll
have Joe Pegs on now It's six thirty

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Kids at W Denver. This is
Dan Caplis. We stayed on obviously so

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you could hear the end of that
and will deep dive it. Michael Brown

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will be on It's six thirty Kitsch
at W his Great Morning Show tomorrow morning,

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and then of course four to six
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Ryan Schuling does a great show on
six thirty kitsch W two to four,

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so lots of opportunities to deep dive
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for running this commercial free through this
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minutes. I know you have thoughts
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that, first of all, we're
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it a big boy press conference because
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staged event and it wasn't a true
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With that, Biden still had constant
flubbs, and I don't think did

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anything to reassure any reasonable person about
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as a guy who wants to see
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Trump win, helps all Republicans win, I'm heartened. I'm heartened. I'm

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hopeful this means that he's going to
stay in longer. He won't be the

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nominee, but I hope this means
that he'll drag it out as long as

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humanly possible. Seem to be his
attitude tonight. I think his candidacy will

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be over very very soon. But
hopefully we get him a bit longer and

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it makes things even tougher on the
Democrats. I think that's starting by referring

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to your vice president is Trump not
the best start, especially after just referring

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to Zelensky as Putin yep, and
a lot more to break down tomorrow.

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I just can't believe he's staying with
this lineup. I don't need a cognitive

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test. Nobody's asking for it.
Yes they are. Everybody on your own

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side is why not just go through
the test show if you're that confident about

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how you stand cognitively, and you're
right the repeat of the mistake calling Zelenski

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Putin saying vice President Trump, they
showed a reaction shot on Twitter of his

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cabinet members like blink and etc.
And they just you could see their faces

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drop. But what I heard,
just to echo your sentiments real quickly,

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Dan Tonight, was a guy that's
committed to staying in the race. I

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think he did just well enough to
clear the bar of he's not completely out

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there out to pasture, and he's
going to have to be really talked out

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of this, and I don't think
that's going to be easy. So to

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your point, he's in it.
He's staying in it. I think he

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bought himself some time tonight, and
that's good news for Donald Trump. I

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think he's right about one thing when
he says, wait a second, every

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day on this job is a cognitive
test. I think that is true.

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And I think that watching him in
action the few times they allow us to

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do that, because this has been
one massive cover up of his inability.

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Every time we get to see him, it is more valuable to us,

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I think than a medical cognitive test. The point is he fails. He

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fails those everyday tests. Ryan,
I think he's done. I think he's

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done very soon. Soon he'll announced, And what I mean by that is

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he'll announced that he's no longer going
to seek reelection. But let's hope that

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tonight means he's going to drag it
out. Even another week or two is

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very helpful to Trump. So thank
you Ryan for staying late. Thank you

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to Dave Tepper and management for allowing
this to go into Alet's conclusion. Please

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join Michael Brown in the morning and
six thirty KHW Denver Ryan Shuling at two.

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I'll beyond Dan Kaplis. I'll be
on tomorrow two to four look forward

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to taking your calls in texts.
Then have a great ev