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Trump weighed firing Pirro for Reflecting Pool reversal · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Jeanine Pierro's future appears to be hanging in the balance
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  Speaker 1: over the DCUs attorney's decision to drop charges against a
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  Speaker 1: former olympian who was accused of vandalism among other people
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  Speaker 1: at the reflecting pool. Now, sources say it is highly
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  Speaker 1: likely that she'll be fired. Another administration official described the
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  Speaker 1: President as blindsided by Pierro's reversal, which instead blamed a
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  Speaker 1: botched renovation by the contractor and criticized the Interior Department.
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  Speaker 1: Interior Secretary Doug Bergham pushed back hard on that, and
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  Speaker 1: were told that Bergham and Piro met with Trump at
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  Speaker 1: the White House this evening. When pressed by reporters about
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  Speaker 1: her future at a signing earlier today, the President didn't
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  Speaker 1: hold back.
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  Speaker 2: Janeed piroh made a mistake.
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  Speaker 3: It was vandalism.
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  Speaker 2: Frankly, I think she choked because the judge was really vicious.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of going after the people that did it, the
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  Speaker 2: judge went after her and went after her department, and
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  Speaker 2: I guess she choked. I don't know what the hell happened.
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  Speaker 2: I was disappointed with Janny Pierro, really disappointed with Janny Pierro.
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  Speaker 2: She she folded like an umbrella.
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  Speaker 3: Once again, we are through the looking glass and being
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  Speaker 3: asked to pretend that what we know is fake is real.
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  Speaker 3: And Janine perhaps had a moment of clarity of like,
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  Speaker 3: we don't have a case against this man, so we
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  Speaker 3: cannot charge him. And now she's in trouble for living
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  Speaker 3: in reality in Trump world. If she had lived the lie,
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  Speaker 3: then she would be fine. But because she said no,
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  Speaker 3: this is reality, this should not. I mean, it's the
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  Speaker 3: same thing with the election, the Big lie. It's the
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  Speaker 3: same thing with January sixth. Over and over, we are
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  Speaker 3: asked to believe that non reality is reality. He looks
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  Speaker 3: us right in the eyes. This is what dictators do
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  Speaker 3: that He looks us right in the eyes and says
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  Speaker 3: X is reality, and we know it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone want to dispute that, well, not really.
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  Speaker 4: I mean the difference though, between the dictatorship that you're
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  Speaker 4: describing and this is courts of law where evidence rules,
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  Speaker 4: and if you can't produce sufficient evidence, you get upbraided
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  Speaker 4: by a judge and you lose the case. It wasn't
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  Speaker 4: just this guy, it was three others. Those cases were
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  Speaker 4: dropped today and the statement from the District of Columbia
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  Speaker 4: Attorney's office said, it's a botched installation, just giving up
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  Speaker 4: the entire narrative that we were told for weeks was
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  Speaker 4: not true. And it's not like this is as egregious
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  Speaker 4: as those prosecutions where this isn't James call me, this
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  Speaker 4: isn't Letitia James to the average voter, those as egregious
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  Speaker 4: as those prosecutions were, those people were in the game,
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  Speaker 4: These were civilians, They were just passers by. This could
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  Speaker 4: happen to anybody. It's the sort of thing that could
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  Speaker 4: have the possibility to really get more attention than it
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  Speaker 4: deserves because a lot of people are going to say, listen,
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  Speaker 4: that could happen to me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I think also it's worth noting that this is
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  Speaker 1: not the first time that Janine Piro has been pressured
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  Speaker 1: by Trump to do something and then the thing basically
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  Speaker 1: falls apart when there's no evidence. Remember when she was
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  Speaker 1: trying to criminally prosecute the FED Chair Jerome Powell over
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  Speaker 1: a renovation of the FED the FED building. Remember when
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  Speaker 1: the sandwich thrower was slapped with a felony and that
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  Speaker 1: case fell apart in a grand jury. That's just one
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  Speaker 1: of many other cases that she's brought since in the
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  Speaker 1: limited time she's been in this job to try to
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  Speaker 1: pursue Trump's ends. And to Terrey's point, I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: is like a fictional thing that Trump has basically made up,
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  Speaker 1: and he is convinced that it's real, and he wants
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  Speaker 1: everybody around him to as well. And it looks like
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  Speaker 1: Doug Bergham is indulging him.
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  Speaker 4: I for one, was really hopeful we would never have
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  Speaker 4: to talk about the reflecting pool. Ever again, here.
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  Speaker 1: We are you.
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  Speaker 4: Janine Piro is doing her job.
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  Speaker 5: You know, She's going where the evidence leads and we'll
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  Speaker 5: see what happens.
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  Speaker 6: Trump tends to be.
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  Speaker 4: More loyal to his people. He's known a long time,
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  Speaker 4: so I'm curious to see how this plays out.
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  Speaker 6: But Jeanine Piro is doing her.
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  Speaker 1: Job over this. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 5: I think it speaks to a truth in the Trump
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  Speaker 5: administration and the people that surround him, which is he
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  Speaker 5: loves to hire incompetent loyalists, but he also loves to
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  Speaker 5: have a scapegoat and particularly the women around him. You know,
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  Speaker 5: this is sort of a theme that I've been tracking,
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  Speaker 5: whether it was Gnome or Gabbered or you know, just
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  Speaker 5: she loves of course, Yeah, that's that's right, Blondie. But
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  Speaker 5: I think there's this this trend with Trump where he
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  Speaker 5: creates his own problems, but he also creates his own teams,
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  Speaker 5: and when people fail to fall in line or fail
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  Speaker 5: to execute on almost an impossible task like defending this,
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  Speaker 5: he's no, he's unafraid to throw them aside.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's a little I agree with all that.
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  Speaker 6: I guess I would say to Noah's point that the
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  Speaker 6: real problem here is that Jeanine Pierrot had to appeal
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  Speaker 6: to a court of law. She had to prevent present facts,
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  Speaker 6: and of course the court recognized that this was a lie,
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  Speaker 6: and so you know, she had this impossible task which
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  Speaker 6: was to acknowledge reality or lie to a court, which
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  Speaker 6: is just technically illegal even for the Justice Department. And
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  Speaker 6: so I think the truth of this whole situation is,
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  Speaker 6: you know, of course we're asked to live in unreality.
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  Speaker 6: But the thing that's more dangerous here is that the
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  Speaker 6: president is willing to fire his own people in order
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  Speaker 6: to have wilful prosecutions that are just totally made up
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  Speaker 6: against innocent basically bystanders, civilians. And that is a weaponized
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  Speaker 6: DOJ which is exactly what he claims to have been
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  Speaker 6: worried about.
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  Speaker 1: This is President Trump talking about this contract that is
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  Speaker 1: really at the heart of this. It's a no bid
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  Speaker 1: contract that went out to some contractor that he apparently
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  Speaker 1: had a previous relationship with. And this is what he
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  Speaker 1: said back in April versus what he said today.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I'm not saying I was one hundred percent thrilled
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  Speaker 2: with the contractor, but the contractor was rushing. We wanted
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  Speaker 2: to get it open for July fourth, and we got
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  Speaker 2: it done by the way. I didn't know the contractor
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  Speaker 2: would have said the contract I didn't know the contractor.
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  Speaker 2: But when it was completed, it was perfect. I said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Doug, I have a guy who is unbelievable
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  Speaker 2: at doing swimming pools. I mean to send my contractor
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  Speaker 2: over and take a look.
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  Speaker 3: He looked at it and he called me up.
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  Speaker 2: He said, so we can do something on it.
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  Speaker 1: We have a color.
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  Speaker 2: It's called American flag blue.
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  Speaker 1: I said, that's the color.
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  Speaker 5: I like it.
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  Speaker 2: He talked me into it very easily.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the lies and it's just a lot of lies.
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  Speaker 1: It is from one month to another.
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  Speaker 3: But he's also he's supposed to be a builder, whatever
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  Speaker 3: we think of him politically, he should be able to
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  Speaker 3: build things right. He should be able to work with
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  Speaker 3: contractors to get what he wants right. But clearly but again,
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  Speaker 3: he's unable to do that. He's actually falling back on
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  Speaker 3: the thing that America first became knowing him all about
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  Speaker 3: firing people, right, That's what we're getting back to here.
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  Speaker 1: But also, I mean, this contract has been rife with
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  Speaker 1: problems from the beginning. As he pointed out, he rushed
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  Speaker 1: this job. He gave the guy a no big contract
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  Speaker 1: for six point nine million dollars, which is several times
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  Speaker 1: over more than he said the whole project would cost
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  Speaker 1: when he started it off. They used this rarely used
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  Speaker 1: exemption that is supposed to be used to prevent serious injury,
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  Speaker 1: financial or other to the government in order to get
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  Speaker 1: this contract through. So I guess it shouldn't be a
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  Speaker 1: surprise to any of us that the President cutting corners
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  Speaker 1: on this project and elsewhere. By the way, let's not
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  Speaker 1: forget there's a whole hole where the East Wing used
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  Speaker 1: to be. All kinds of things that the White House
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  Speaker 1: have been torn up, and god knows what those arrangements
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  Speaker 1: have been. But this is a very vivid example of
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  Speaker 1: what it looks like when there's no oversight, which there
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to be for things like this.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, to your point, if there was a little
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  Speaker 4: less tolerance on the part of Republican lawmakers for this
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  Speaker 4: sort of thing, you probably see less of it, because
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  Speaker 4: there'd be a check and a mechanism to enforce some
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  Speaker 4: sort of propriety on the president. They don't really do
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  Speaker 4: The Republicans don't really do him a lot of favors
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  Speaker 4: by indulging in these fantasies here. But the misuse of
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  Speaker 4: taxpayer dollars, as bad as that is, doesn't rise to
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  Speaker 4: the level of the abuse that we've just seen, charging
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  Speaker 4: of private citizens with crimes that cannot be proven of
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  Speaker 4: much less probably an indictment sought before a grand jury.
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  Speaker 4: These indictments were simply handed down. So I think we
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  Speaker 4: were talking about apples and oranges here, and those oranges
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  Speaker 4: are really, really bad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree with it. I would agree with
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  Speaker 1: that because I mean, I think that the damage that
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  Speaker 1: is being done to regular individuals is the story here,
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  Speaker 1: and also Trump's willingness to weaponize the federal government to
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  Speaker 1: pursue his imaginary aims is what the story is about.
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  Speaker 1: That's scary.
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  Speaker 5: We did watch in real time as this renovation happened.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, people were documenting it on their runs on TikTok,
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  Speaker 5: and it came as no surprise to us when the
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  Speaker 5: paints started peeling up and the algae blooming. But you know,
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  Speaker 5: I want to uplift something that I was seeing as
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  Speaker 5: a narrative online, which was people were saying, you know,
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  Speaker 5: this is my paint chip. Maybe I'll sell it for
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  Speaker 5: two hundred and fifty dollars, and then commenters were joking
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  Speaker 5: I already paid fourteen million dollars for those peeling paint chips.
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  Speaker 6: Also, can I just say it's so weird how much
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  Speaker 6: time he spends on this stuff. Like, you know, I
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  Speaker 6: will say, Americans are worried about gas prices and other things,
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  Speaker 6: and the President spends so much time on this reflecting
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  Speaker 6: pool and then defending the reflecting pool and then attacking
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  Speaker 6: is us.
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  Speaker 1: Hurting meetings or the White House about the reflecting It's.
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  Speaker 6: Like it's like that in the Iran War kind of even.
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  Speaker 1: To him, Well, I mean, we don't have time to
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  Speaker 1: play it, but you know, Maggie Haberman at The New
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  Speaker 1: York Times who knows Trump very well. She says she
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  Speaker 1: believes it's about seventy percent of his mind share right
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  Speaker 1: now that is devoted to these projects. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: a joke, and she's being very serious. And when you
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  Speaker 1: look at when you look at his comments, Look, you
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  Speaker 1: can just look at his public comments. How much does
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  Speaker 1: he talk about this stuff. It's almost every single.
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  Speaker 4: Many of them have been quite successful in cleaning.
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  Speaker 1: Up it does sound. It literally doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 6: It's a priority and tasteless.
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  Speaker 3: The gold and the Oval office outside of the old Again,
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  Speaker 3: it's not a left right thing. It's just disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: It's useless,