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Speaker 1: So last night, stated the Union, Well, it went pretty

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much exactly as I predicted. Trump Well, he delivered a

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speech that was built on divisive rhetoric that literally sent

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Republicans to their feet, as I talk about in my substack,

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applause and ashes, literally as if they were propelled out

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of their seat, right to their feet, while the Democrats

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sat stoic or heckling. It was truly less about unity

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and more about drawing battle lines, with Trump tacking through

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the issues that he knows, he knows for a fact,

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is going to dominate the run ups to the midterm.

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how much is on the line, Nagamike. He acknowledged that

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if Democrats win in the midterms, which they are expected

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to by a large margin at this moment, Trump's power

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is in jeopardy. Play the clip.

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Speaker 2: He needs all four years, not just two, to fix them.

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And that's what we need. If we lost the mid terms,

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heaven forbid, if we lost the majority in the House,

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it would be the end of the Trump presidency in

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a real effect. So we've got to keep this going,

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and I think we're excited to put our candidates on

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the field to explain all.

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Speaker 3: This with the people.

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Speaker 1: Look, as I write in my substack, applause and ashes

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last night, stated the Union. It was not a speech.

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It was a ross shack test. I mean, if you

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were wearing a red tie and sitting on the right

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side of the aisle, it was a triumphant, chest stumping

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affirmation that America is roaring back under President Trump. But

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if you were seated on the left, or one of

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the nearly fifty Democrats that boycotted all together, that were

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outside with midas touch, it was legitimately a five alarm

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fire with sirens blaring and the Constitution smoldering. Senator Warnock, Well,

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he had the same opinion from the Democratic side.

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Speaker 4: Play the clip, Americans are literally being disappeared off of

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those streets by mass men jumping out of unmarked cars.

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Donald Trump knows that he is losing. We heard tonight

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the rumblings of a desperate man who's trying to present

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the best case he can for the midterms. It was

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half lies, half grievances. He knows that he is quickly

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losing power, and so a signature part of his plan,

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as he expressed it tonight, was to try to find

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some way to pass the so called Save Act. They

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certainly aren't trying to save America. They're trying to save

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their power at any calls.

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Speaker 1: You know. Like I also write, you don't need to

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be in that chamber to recognize the choreography. We've all

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seen this act before, right, the rhythm of the applause lines,

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the way that Trump bates a room, the way that

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he turned silence into an accusation. This one hundred and

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eight minute speech the longest right honern state of the

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Union in history. This one had everything right. This one

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was like a full theatrical movie or something. It had bravado,

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It had grievance, it had selective math, it had red

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meat theater. All right. But here's the funny thing for

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the Republicans, Oh yeah, it worked. Maga pundits. They literally

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tried to claim that this was his best speech ever polling. Well,

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let's just say it shows something different. Let me show

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you what it says in it. It turns around and

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it shows twenty twenty six very positive reaction to Trump's speech.

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And again this is amongst speech watchers thirty eight percent

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last year by Biden twenty twenty five. Going back to

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twenty seventeen Trump's first fifty seven percent and then twenty eighteen,

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forty eight and fifty nine in twenty nineteen, certainly better

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in terms of at least this poll number in the past. Now,

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like I said earlier today, Trump speech writers, they should

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actually learn to fact check. But we know that they

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don't do that. They never would. Representative Jamie Redskin he

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called Trump out for spewing lies for two hours and

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for not offering any insight on his plan for the country,

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the absolute purpose of what the state of the Union

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is all about. Play the clip.

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Speaker 3: I just couldn't take much more than forty five minutes.

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It was a pack of lies. It was one lie

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after another and then a series of provocations against the Democrats.

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There was no policy content or program to it, which

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makes sense because they have no program for America. Grocery

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prices are increasing, energy prices are increasing, Housing is totally

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out of control. They've got no plan for America, and

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they just stand with the rich and the powerfully, as

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we've seen through the Epstein tobacco, as we've seen through

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the fact that they're unleashing ice to shoot American citizens

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dead in the streets. Just for exercising our first Amendment. Right.

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So anyway I went. I tried to be polite for

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as long as I could, and then I decided I

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was just gonna leaven, come out here and be with

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my people and be with the Midas touch nations.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they certainly are. Meanwhile, despite the validity of

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rescue and statement, Trump's pundits, well, they will always always

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lie for him. They will exaggerate, they will distort the

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facts Byron Donald's. Well he tried to. He tried this

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nonsense on CNN, but John Berman, Nah, he wasn't having it.

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He was actually quick finally with a fact check. Play

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Speaker 5: The previous economy under Joe Biden. We all know that

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was a terrible economy for everybody.

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Speaker 1: Everybody was suffering.

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Speaker 6: You brought up GDP growth inflation. Inflation was higher, but

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GDP growth was also higher during the Biden administration. That

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to year. But Congressman, I do want to ask you

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about GDP growth. You can go jack GDP growth. I mean,

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GDP is what the GDP was. Gb growth last quarter

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Again, no matter what you say to them, they

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sort of as Kelly and Conwey used to call it, right,

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all saw the heckling that took place in the chamber

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last night, and by the way, I absolutely hate that.

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I absolutely do. I don't care who the president is,

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there's a certain respect to the person that's standing up there,

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and for whatever, I hate it when they heckled Obama.

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I hate it when they heckled Trump. I hate it

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when they heckled Joe Biden. I just don't like it.

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This isn't England, this isn't Parliament, right, And yes, I

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understand why they're angry and so on. Nevertheless, I find

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it disruptive. It took place in the chamber and Sean Duffy, well,

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let's just say he had some choice words about the decorum.

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Speaker 7: Play that clip, and Democrats in essence sat down for

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all of them. You had a congress woman to leave

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in omar. They were heckling the president through the whole speech.

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I'm not sure if you could hear it, but it

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was incredibly distracting. When someone yelled you lie at Barack Obama.

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America lost its mind the whole speech. You had hecklers

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of the president. I do even if you don't agree

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with them, you should respect him enough to listen to

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him and you talk about what happens in Congress. You

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rips up a speech, where does the chorum come back?

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be an American applaud great issues the president raises, just

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because you don't like him. Doesn't mean it can't be

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an American issue that you support.

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Speaker 8: Just in point of fact, I mean, I understand you're

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saying that when President Obama said things you know you

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would you would you would not sit in protest, even

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all the Democrats, not just one congresswoman or another, but

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all of them. He said, quote, these people are crazy.

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something we ever heard from Obama or Biden from that

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Speaker 7: We've had a speaker rip up a speech either.

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Speaker 1: You see again, no matter what anybody says, there's always

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and I write this in my sub stack today, silence

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can be loud than applause. Now, I want you to

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think about what you want. But throughout the years, people

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from the opposite party, they've always heckled the president. And

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have always heckled the president and Representative Sidney I'm Kalnger

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Dove pointed out that real leadership is not measured by

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applause from sycophants.

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Speaker 9: Play that clip, But sadly, this is a kind of

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courage that our president doesn't have. So as Donald Trump

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survivors in the audience, he will be reminded what true

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leadership looks like. And it is not measured by applause

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from sycophants. It is measure by whether or not you

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Speaker 10: But enough about Trump. I'm so tired of talking about

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this small man who is not worth any of our time,

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because this People's State of the Union is not about him,

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Speaker 1: Yes, she's right, But to his supporters, this was a

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president projecting strength, a leader hammering home border control, economic stabilization,

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cultural combat. But to his critics, it was grievance politics

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dressed up his governance, hyperbole masquerading as hope now representative.

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the mightas touch network counterprogram Jesse waters Well, he of

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Speaker 11: The chamber is starting to fill up, and the big

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given the fact that a record setting seventy three congressional

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won't be there, and a couple dozen of them having

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dubbing the People's State of the Union. Jesse, we'll send

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can afford a house, They are thinking about the grocery bill,

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constituents don't feel. And so I wanted to be in

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a place where people were serious about the cost of living,

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about retiring with some dignity, about actually maybe something someday

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being able to afford a home and you know, I

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who have enriched himself in office, and the rest of

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the rest of the American people who are really struggling.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, America is struggling and for whatever reason.

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have talked about, whether it's legitimate information or whether or

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not this is potential policy that they This is supposed

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to be again, as Jim Hyne says, it's supposed to

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be about the people and where was supposed to be

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looking forward to in the future now. Interestingly enough, John Fetterman,

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he went on Fox News to celebrate that he was

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the only Democrat to shake Trump's hand last night, played

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Speaker 13: Immigration and Enforcement and DHS funding. I saw an email

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thread last night where you shook the president's hand. I

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believe it was on the way in, and it suggested

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Speaker 5: I do believe that that's true. And now for me,

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I'm not going to yell or do that again, regardless

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who the president is that I think that's been lost

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nowt here for a nation to do that. So for me, yes,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. As I say in my again, substack applause and ashes.

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it confirmed what too many of us already fear. State

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of our union depends entirely on where you're sitting, which

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side of the aisle, and increasingly we're not even in

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the same room, maybe not even in the same country.

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