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This is your money! Former Reps message to Americans as Trump spends big on vanity projects · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Smoil continues for President Trump's vanity projects, specifically for the
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  Speaker 1: now drained of Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. The president claimed
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  Speaker 1: that a social media post yesterday that the pool quote
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  Speaker 1: so badly damaged by deranged vandals that was capitalized has
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  Speaker 1: been emptied as the massive slash gets repaired. This comes
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  Speaker 1: after his story on the size of the alleged gash
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  Speaker 1: keeps changing, with no evidence to back up his claims,
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  Speaker 1: and to make matters worse, reporters sent to the pool
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  Speaker 1: empty pool say they have seen nothing to match Trump's allegations.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, a Washington Post analysis also finds the peeling
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  Speaker 1: of the lining was probably caused by application flaws. They
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  Speaker 1: used satellite imagery and everything to come up with that.
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  Speaker 2: The resource Susan.
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  Speaker 1: Wild, former Democratic the Congresswomen of Pennsylvania's joining us, as
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  Speaker 1: well as Will Summer, senior reporter at the Bulwark. As
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  Speaker 1: you can tell by the way I read that intro,
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  Speaker 1: this well, this, this story just delights me to know.
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  Speaker 1: And why is the president, of all the things that's happening,
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  Speaker 1: why is he still blaming quote deranged vandals for doing
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  Speaker 1: something that anybody who watched what happened could have told
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  Speaker 1: this is what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, let's go back to the start of this.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Joe Biden had this planet an expensive plan
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  Speaker 2: to actually repair the reflecting pool, repair it. Trump paint
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  Speaker 2: it blue exactly. Trump comes in and says, we can
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  Speaker 2: do it a lot cheaper. We'll just paint it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: anyone who knows anything knows you can't just paint something
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  Speaker 2: to fix it. But they did it. And I think
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  Speaker 2: this is just a concrete example of Trump failing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And that's why it's upsetting so much. He's had to
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  Speaker 2: invent this, this whole alternate universe about you know, the
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  Speaker 2: vandals with the giant knives or what have you.
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  Speaker 4: And the thing is is that this is a silly
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  Speaker 4: story that delights, but also there is a serious aspect
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  Speaker 4: to this, which is that the President of the United
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  Speaker 4: States and the lawyers under his tutelage have gone after
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  Speaker 4: people and charged at least one person with an actual crime.
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  Speaker 4: So you have this former Olympian who was walking by,
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  Speaker 4: who apparently pooled at at some of as a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people did because it was floating at the top,
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  Speaker 4: pulled off a piece of it. He is still charged
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  Speaker 4: at this point it does not appear that those charges
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  Speaker 4: have been dropped. But talk about how you have a
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  Speaker 4: president who does focus on silly crap and then uses
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  Speaker 4: that focus and weaponizes it. It gets his own people.
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  Speaker 3: It's really just amazing to that former olympian who was
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  Speaker 3: charged and is still under arrest. It's not a funny
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  Speaker 3: story to him, and it's really affect you know, things
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  Speaker 3: Trump does affect people's lives every single day, and the
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  Speaker 3: story fades and we stopped thinking about it, but the
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  Speaker 3: person is still dealing with the repercussions of it. This
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  Speaker 3: reminds me, you know, every swimming pool owner in America
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  Speaker 3: with a backyard swimming pool is thinking to themselves, oh,
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  Speaker 3: this isn't the end of the story, because you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's just one repair after another with anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: But this is just classic Trump to be focusing on,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, something like an alleged, you know, person
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  Speaker 3: who cut a hole in the in the lining when
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  Speaker 3: we've got this war in Iran that's costing billions of
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  Speaker 3: dollars and lives and so forth, and the trivia he
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  Speaker 3: can't the trivia is important to him is the big picture.
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  Speaker 3: That's the really scary thing. I mean, usually presidents don't
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  Speaker 3: think about trivia. They have people that think about trivia.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't, but he does.
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  Speaker 2: He loves us.
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  Speaker 4: He seems more obsessed with the trivia stuff than anything else.
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  Speaker 3: It's easier for him to grasp.
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  Speaker 1: Well, like if you.
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  Speaker 4: Read regime change, like there are so many stories Laura
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  Speaker 4: about the President focusing on basically remaking, not just DC
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  Speaker 4: with the White House that Caroline Levitt like caught him
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  Speaker 4: with like super glue, supergloing and applicating things. Then, I mean.
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  Speaker 5: He loves this and he wants to leave his mark.
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  Speaker 5: He wants to be remembered beyond, you know, after he dies.
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  Speaker 5: We also know he's very obsessed with his mortality, and
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  Speaker 5: I think that that's part of why he's obsessed with
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  Speaker 5: these projects. But will, I do want to play this
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  Speaker 5: soft for you. Where the Interior Secretary was asked Secretary
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  Speaker 5: Burgham about their allegations of vandalism, take a listen.
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  Speaker 6: It didn't peel off. There was there was there is vandalism.
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  Speaker 6: There was box cutters. There have been seven arrests. There
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  Speaker 6: was people literally trying to destroy part of a monument.
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  Speaker 6: The reflecting pool is not just a pool on the wall.
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  Speaker 6: It is part of the Lincoln Memorial And if anybody
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  Speaker 6: says that they're going to go and vandalize that, it's
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  Speaker 6: no different than if someone was throwing.
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  Speaker 3: You're one hundred percent sure that what happened with the
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  Speaker 3: liner was vandalism.
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  Speaker 2: You can prove it?
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, absolutely so, Burgham there is saying yes, we
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  Speaker 5: can prove it. But this administration has a track record
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  Speaker 5: that once they go into court, their cases often fall apart.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean that they couldn't even get the story
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  Speaker 2: about the guy throwing the sandwich at the National Guards.
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  Speaker 2: They couldn't get that in dieted for a while.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: One thing that's worth mentioning here is they've had the
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  Speaker 2: FBI response team out looking at the pool. Now, could
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  Speaker 2: the FBI do they have a better use of their time?
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  Speaker 2: I would say so. And I think you're right that
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  Speaker 2: ultimately this thing is gonna have a lot of trouble
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  Speaker 2: in court. I mean, this former olympian is going to say,
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  Speaker 2: you know, my hand was dry or something along those lines.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think there's a lot of arguments that
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  Speaker 2: he could make.
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  Speaker 4: Or he could say, do y'all see a hole on
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  Speaker 4: the ground, like we're all looking at the ground.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still there's no hole.
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  Speaker 1: I can't go get over. Secretary Bergham saying there weren't
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  Speaker 1: box cutters, but you know how you have to dig
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  Speaker 1: go down deep anyway, congress Woman, he's not only messing
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  Speaker 1: He the president is not only messing with the reflecting
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  Speaker 1: pool and super gluing gold applicat is all over the
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  Speaker 1: Oval Office, turning into his Siegfried and Roy National Museum.
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  Speaker 1: But he's putting his face on a commemorative passport that
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  Speaker 1: you can get here at the passport. I'm getting to
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  Speaker 1: the coin in a minute. Go to the passport because
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  Speaker 1: people need to see this. It's a real thing where
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  Speaker 1: people His face is there on there. It is based
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  Speaker 1: on the on the passport. Now let's show the gold
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  Speaker 1: coin he's putting his face on. And now just listen
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  Speaker 1: to the President talking about sharing his thoughts. I'm being
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  Speaker 1: on the gold coin. This is from an interview on
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  Speaker 1: Fox News on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 6: Your face is now gonna be on a coin.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like from the Treasury Department. Yes, what do
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  Speaker 2: you think about that?
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  Speaker 5: There's very honored. It's cute.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a bit picture, but it's very cute.
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  Speaker 5: They gave me a coin that's very unusual from what
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  Speaker 5: I ad.
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  Speaker 4: I love the fake shock who me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so honored.
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe they would do.
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  Speaker 3: This for someone like me.
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  Speaker 1: Not a bad picture. Lord, have mercy, congresswomen, just hold forth.
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  Speaker 3: All I can say is, does he not understand how
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  Speaker 3: unpopular dollar coins are that everybody thinks are quarters And
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's just going to be one of those
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  Speaker 3: relics of our past and no time at all. And
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  Speaker 3: he takes all this. It says a lot about his
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  Speaker 3: his narcissism, I don't know, or his level of insecurity.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I mean, maybe to go together, but I
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  Speaker 3: can't even imagine. And then as we were just saying,
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  Speaker 3: to pretend to be honored by something that he's literally
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  Speaker 3: put into play himself. You know, it's just it's it's ludicrous.
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  Speaker 3: And I have one thing to say to the taxpayers.
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  Speaker 3: This is your money. This is your money, not just
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  Speaker 3: the commemorative coin, but the nonsense with the reflecting pool,
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  Speaker 3: the ballroom, everything else, the super glue we used to
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  Speaker 3: put something up in the White House. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: just it's crazy, and people are struggling, and here we've
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  Speaker 3: got a president that's focused on this kind of thing,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just mind boggling.
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  Speaker 1: And I argue he's doing it because he knows history
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  Speaker 1: will not be kind to him, so he wants to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that he is not forgotten
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  Speaker 5: Before right, A coin, a passport, a triumphal arch, his
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  Speaker 5: name on airport,