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Speaker 1: I want to be crystal clear on something. CBS as

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a station, as a network, it's gone. It's literally been

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completely taken over by this corrupt administration, and that, my friends,

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could not be clearer from this weekend. I say that because,

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just hours before Sixty Minutes was set to air, this major,

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major investigation into deportees who were sent by the Trump

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administration to El Salvador. I'm referring to those men who

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believed that they were being returned to Venezuela but were

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instead delivered to that notorious maximum security prison CBS. CBS

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literally abruptly pulled the segment for no reason at all

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other than simply because the administration said to do it.

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Let me show you what it says in it. This

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is the editor's note. The broadcast lineup for tonight's edition

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of Sixty Minutes has been updated. Our report inside Seacott

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will air in a future broadcast with that I call

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bullshit and welcome back to The Michael Cone Show on

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our continued journey to a million subscribers. Look, thanks to you.

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We're crushing it. More than twelve thousand new subscribers in

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to subscribe, comment, share, do whatever you need to do

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so that we can put an end to all of

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this stupidity. Now, my friends, this comes after CBS had

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already promoted and teased the trailer of the episode literally

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hours before play the clip. You know, I wrote in

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my sub stack of the other day, more than thirty

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five people have already died in ice detainee. Imagine that

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for just the last couple of days. So yeah, when

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he says he thought that he was going to die,

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there absolutely Now here's the worst part. We can actually

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all of us see why Barry Weiss and the new

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team over at CBS would pull the plug on such

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a story. It's not that hard to see. The story

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reportedly detailed alleged brutal conditions like the shackling, beatings, isolation,

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sexual abuse, torture. These are crimes against humanity, explaining that

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the United States didn't just know about it, that the

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United States actually went so far and enabled it. But

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of course, then the story suddenly vanished, just like these

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folks did. CBS. They gave a vague editorial note literally

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followed by complete silence as outrage broke out online. But

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my friends, what's really important here to understand is that

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this didn't happen in a vacuum. Oh hell no. For

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weeks now, weeks, Trump regime has been openly attacking CBS

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and sixty Minutes. Trump personally demanded apologies from the network,

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lashed out, literally lashed out a journalists by name, and

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then accused the show of mistreating him and all, all

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while at the same time CBS executives were resigning citing

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compromise journalistic independence. And that, my friends, is the context

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of what's taking place here, you see, including Trump posting

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on truth social For those people that think I am

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close with the new owners of CBS, please understand that

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sixty minutes has treated me. It's all worse since the

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so called takeover than they have ever treated me before.

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If they are friends, I'd hate to see my enemies,

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and also stating at a rally that sixty minutes treated

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him worse under this new administration, under this new ownership,

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that he just wasn't going to accept it. Play the clip.

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Speaker 2: They'd doun screaming, but NBC's really bad and CBS, I mean,

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I love the new owners of CBS. Something happens to

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him though sixty minutes has treated me worse under the

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new ownership than they just keep treating me.

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Speaker 1: They just keep hitting me. It's crazy, Yeah, it's not crazy.

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What they're doing is not hitting you. The fact that

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you don't like what they're talking about does not constitute

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hitting you. No one's physically touching you. They're asking questions.

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They are bringing issues to the forefront, which, by the way,

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is exactly what sixty minutes has done now for what

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over fifty years. So you don't like what they're talking about, Okay,

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how about this. Maybe don't let your people go on

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television on sixty minutes. Maybe you don't do sixty minutes.

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Maybe instead what you do is you use sixty minutes,

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You use CBS to use the parent company, and you

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threaten them to pull their license, their FCC license. You

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go ahead and you sue them for billions of dollars.

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You're holding up things like mergers or acquisitions that they're

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trying to do. And what do you garner from that?

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You garner from that the ability to dictate what goes

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on air and what isn't. My friends, you know what

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that's called. That's called state sponsored media. That's the same

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bullshit that takes place in I don't know, Saudi Arabia,

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in Russia, it takes place in not in democracies, but

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in autocracies and dictatorships and monarchy. This is exactly what

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which in Russian means truth is all about. It is

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state sponsored media and that is unconstitutional. Now this is

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happening while at the same exact time that the FCC

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chair literally openly admitted in a congressional testimony hearing that

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the FCC is not independent. It blew me away when

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I listened to this guy say that that the FCC

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is not independent and has selectively targeted media outlets that

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are critical a President Trump, while literally leaving Fox untouched,

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unscathed to do as they wish. Political pressure is no

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longer subtle. It's actually overt. Play the clip.

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Speaker 3: See an independent agency.

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Speaker 4: Santra, Thanks for that question, I think is all he

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needs are yes, you know, is it independent? Oh there's

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a test for this in the law, in the key

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portion that oh, Brendan, the key portion of that test.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to go to commissioner trustee. So just

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so you know, Brendan, on your website, it just simply says, man,

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the FCC is independent. This isn't a trick question.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yes, yes?

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Speaker 3: Is not?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Is not?

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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 3: Is your website wrong? Is your website lying?

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Speaker 1: Possibly? The SEC is not an independent agency?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 3: Can I read this to you The FCC's mission on

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the home page of the FCC man an independent US

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government agency overseen by Congress? Is that factual?

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Speaker 1: Or is that a lie?

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Speaker 4: The FC is not formally is independent?

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Speaker 1: Is this true? Or is this a lie? I'm not

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an answer question.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'll get back by the president.

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Speaker 3: Chairman, I have a little bit of a time.

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Speaker 4: I'll get back to yess is not an independent agency

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formally speaking.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate you saying that and being honest with the American people.

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Speaker 4: Commission Trustee, Senator, thank you for the question. The President

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is the chief of chief executive vested with all executive

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power in our government, and FCC commissioners are not. We

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do not have four cause removal protections, which means that

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we aren't independent.

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Speaker 3: So is your website line?

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Speaker 4: I can't speak to the website.

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Speaker 1: I've not seen that.

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Speaker 4: You all are the commissioners in charge of this place, right,

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so this stuff has to be approved.

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Speaker 3: I want of you. If this is lying, then you

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should just fix it. Let me just say that that

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wasn't even my gotcha question, and I'm surprised that I've

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burned up three minutes talking about this damn thing. Commissioner Gomes, Yes,

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and we should be. I appreciate that. Well, mister Chairman,

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if I could just admit the print out of the

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homepage of the FCC into the record, mand it says

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it's an independent agency and if it's not true, then change.

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Speaker 1: It without objection. Okay, what's changing a website have to do?

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Of course, the FCC should be, as the last commissioner stated,

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it should be independent. You know, you can't have the

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president of the United States. You cannot have his regime,

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his administration, his group of acolytes, sycophants and enablers sitting

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there and telling somebody, well, unless you do what we want,

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we're going to pull your license. We're not going to

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approve a merger or a transfer or whatever it might be.

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That's not the way that the system is supposed to work.

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That's not the way that you get unbiased news, which

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is what news is supposed to be. You see, what's

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happened is when you start to look at whether it's

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the MSNBC's, the CNN's, the Fox Newses, et cetera, the

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cable news. It's no longer by partisan. It's no longer

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just factually accurate. It has become opinion. It's one opinion

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after the other, and those who cackle the loudest end

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up seeing to get the greatest ratings. This is what

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state aligned media looks like. That's why independent media matters.

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It's why places like this Matter might have touched network

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my Maya Culpa podcast political beatdown that I do with

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Ben my Cells. That's why these matter. These independent media

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sources matter now more than ever because without it, without it,

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the st worries, they just get buried. They get buried

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as if they never exist. How could you possibly sit

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there and accept the fact that you have three commissioners

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of the FCC right there on the hill Trustee Commissioner.

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Trustee turns around and says, well, she doesn't know. She

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didn't review the website. You are the commissioner, for God's sakes, seriously,

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and you don't know what your own website says. You See.

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What the congress member should have done is ask her.

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Let's take a moment, and I will burn up all

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my time here. I would like for you to take

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a moment. This is the area. I would like for

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you to read to yourself and tell me yes or

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no whether or not the FCC is or is not independent.

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You see, on my time as a congressman, I'm going

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to teach you about an agency that you are a

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commissioner of. How stupid does that sound to you? Because

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I can tell you the American people think it's worse

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than stupid. You see, going back to independent media, what

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we've actually built together. Why this Michael Cohen Show is

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now exploding, It's because it's proof positive that corporate news

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doesn't own the truth the people do. We do, and

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we're going to continue to put it out there every

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single day and as always, thanks for listening. Hey everyone,

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