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'She'll never leave me' Who is Trump's aide Natalie Harp · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Or learning more about the White House. Aide who's garnered
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  Speaker 1: a lot of interests in details of her relationship with
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  Speaker 1: the president came to lighten the new book Regime Change
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  Speaker 1: by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. Her name is Natalie Harp.
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  Speaker 1: Her title a Special and executive Assistant to the President.
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  Speaker 1: He reportedly told the White House staff that she was
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  Speaker 1: quote the only one who loved him as much as
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  Speaker 1: his wife and kids. Randy Kay has more.
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  Speaker 2: Good Evening. I'm Natalie Harp, formerly forgotten American from California.
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  Speaker 3: Her name is Natalie Harp. She's a former host for
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  Speaker 3: the far right Network on American News and Today, at
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  Speaker 3: just thirty four years old, is considered one of President
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump's closest personal assistants.
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  Speaker 4: She's just totally devoted him. In an Oval office meetings,
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  Speaker 4: she sits on the chair the side of the room
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  Speaker 4: with her laptop open.
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  Speaker 3: Harp is known for toting around a portable printer and
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  Speaker 3: printing stacks of papers and positive press for President Trump
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  Speaker 3: on the spot. She's become known as the human printer.
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  Speaker 4: Trump basically just says, Natalie, get me this. Oh He's yeh,
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  Speaker 4: google this.
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  Speaker 3: In their new book, Regime Change. New York Times reporters
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  Speaker 3: Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman also report on letters that
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  Speaker 3: Harp has left for Trump. Swan described them as odd, adoring,
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  Speaker 3: and intimate.
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  Speaker 4: She has written him numerous letters that she's left for him,
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  Speaker 4: including one that says you are all that matters to me,
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  Speaker 4: or some version of that raised the eyebrows of the
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  Speaker 4: Secret Service during the campaign. Some of these letters that
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  Speaker 4: were left in some of his private quarters.
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  Speaker 3: According to Regime Change, Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles,
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  Speaker 3: asked where am I upon learning about the letters. Harp
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  Speaker 3: first connected with Trump during her battle with stage two
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  Speaker 3: bone cancer, thanking Trump publicly for saving her life by
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  Speaker 3: signing the Right to TRYACT in twenty nineteen. She claims
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  Speaker 3: that allowed her to receive experimental cancer treatment.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I'm not dying from cancer anymore. Thanks to President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: I'm living with cancer.
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  Speaker 3: She shared her story and credited Trump again at the
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty Republican National Convention.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be alive today if it wasn't for you.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't give me the right to try experimental treatments.
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  Speaker 2: Mister President. You did, and without you, I'd have died.
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  Speaker 2: Waiting for them to be approved.
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  Speaker 3: The Washington Post has raised questions about her claims in
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  Speaker 3: Regime Change. The author's report that Harp stays late into
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  Speaker 3: the night at the White House when President Trump is
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  Speaker 3: often active on social media.
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  Speaker 5: Natalie Harp is one of the people who took over
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  Speaker 5: posting duties to the President's truth social post in this term,
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  Speaker 5: and that makes her fairly significant.
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  Speaker 3: In May, The Wall Street Journal reported that Harp has
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  Speaker 3: frustrated some White House officials because she typically doesn't share
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  Speaker 3: draft posts with the Chief of Staff's Office, communications aids,
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  Speaker 3: or national security officials. The paper also reported that Harp
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  Speaker 3: has told others she works for Trump and only listens
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  Speaker 3: to him. Soon after Trump began his second term, according
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  Speaker 3: to the author Years of Regime Change, Trump told staffers
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  Speaker 3: that Harp was the only one who loved him as
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  Speaker 3: much as his wife and kids. All of you will
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  Speaker 3: go off and make money, Trump said, She'll never leave me.
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  Speaker 6: One of his closest aids, Natalie Harp, Maggie, and Jonathan
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  Speaker 6: report on how she became the President's gateway to information,
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  Speaker 6: supplying him with positive news stories and pro Trump's social
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  Speaker 6: media post. They also write how she would often read
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  Speaker 6: the materials out loud to the president and later give
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  Speaker 6: him physical copies from a portable printer that she kept
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  Speaker 6: on her According to the new book, Harp wrote Trump
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  Speaker 6: adoring letters that she left in his personal spaces, including
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  Speaker 6: one that read, you were all that matters to me.
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  Speaker 6: Trump's chief of staff Suzie Walls, told others that she
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  Speaker 6: remembered thinking where am I, and that Trump had taken
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  Speaker 6: to telling his staff that Natalie was the only one
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  Speaker 6: who loved him as much as his wife and his kids, adding,
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  Speaker 6: all of you will go off and make money, and
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  Speaker 6: she'll never leave me. I mean Maggie, obviously those of
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  Speaker 6: us who cover the president, Oh, Natalie Harp, Obviously she's
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  Speaker 6: typically by his side all the time. For people at
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  Speaker 6: home though, and as you're looking at the realm of
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  Speaker 6: figures that are surrounding him in this second term, what does.
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  Speaker 2: This say to you?
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  Speaker 5: So a couple of things. Caitlin and Natalie Hart became
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  Speaker 5: omnipresent in the campaign, and we write about that she
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  Speaker 5: was not one of the original people in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 5: one and this very small group of people who was there.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, at some point in twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 5: she became somebody who was constantly with him on the
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  Speaker 5: golf courses when he was in Florida again with a
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  Speaker 5: They would refer to her as the human printer because
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  Speaker 5: she had this portable printer where she would hand him
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  Speaker 5: pieces of positive information. What it says is that he
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  Speaker 5: wants to keep people around who either you know, make
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  Speaker 5: him happy or feed him information that he prefers to hear.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, one of the scenes that we have in
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  Speaker 5: the book is him demanding the quote unquote real numbers
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  Speaker 5: during a tariff discussion when he is being told by
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  Speaker 5: his own staff what the actual numbers aren't. He wants
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  Speaker 5: Natalie to go get him some different set of numbers
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  Speaker 5: that just didn't comport with reality. And he is more
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  Speaker 5: interested in information that he wants to hear and in
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  Speaker 5: seeking out something that validates what he believes. You know
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  Speaker 5: that he has always been interested in that, it was
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  Speaker 5: just harder for him to get this time it is
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  Speaker 5: much easier. And Natalie Harp is one of the people
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  Speaker 5: who took over posting duties to the President's Truth Social
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  Speaker 5: Post in this term, and that makes her fairly significant.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, Maggie, that part really stood out to
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  Speaker 6: me because basically, you know, he was talking to the
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  Speaker 6: Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, Scott as at the Treasury Secretary.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, this passage of the book talks about what
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  Speaker 6: he's hearing from all of these staffers, and he's telling
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  Speaker 6: Natalie go find the good numbers that she had pulled
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  Speaker 6: up for him. I mean it kind of takes you
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  Speaker 6: into how he his staff in terms of experience and
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  Speaker 6: whether they're in the cabinet or the staffer who bowls
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  Speaker 6: him around.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's right.
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  Speaker 5: I mean one of the things we used to hear
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  Speaker 5: in term one a lot, Caitlin, And in this way,
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  Speaker 5: you know, this is a sort of more of a
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  Speaker 5: pure Trump aspect, and we describe Steve Mannon referring to
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  Speaker 5: Donald Trump that way and how much pure Trump was
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  Speaker 5: coming through.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 5: He he often would assign multiple people the same job,
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  Speaker 5: but not quite like this.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: He really is just bringing in, you know, sort of
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  Speaker 5: direct people who will do what he wants. You're seeing
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  Speaker 5: that with Bill Poulty, who is now the Director of
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  Speaker 5: National Intelligence despite having no intelligence experience, no intelligence community experience.
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  Speaker 5: We have, uh, a lot of detail about Bill Poulty's
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  Speaker 5: efforts to try to push Trump toward evidence that he
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  Speaker 5: believed could help UH lead to prosecutions of Trump's perceived
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  Speaker 5: enemies in the book. The fact that he is now
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  Speaker 5: the director of National Intelligence speaks to exactly what we're
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  Speaker 5: talking about with Natalie Harp in a different context.
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  Speaker 7: I think most people, if you were if you had
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  Speaker 7: an employee, because that's what she is, leaving you letters
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  Speaker 7: in your personal space telling you that you are the
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  Speaker 7: most important thing in your life, you would say, you
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  Speaker 7: know what, Han, I think you need to take a vacation.
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  Speaker 7: But he instead finds this to be incredibly affirming, and
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  Speaker 7: that says more about him than it does about her,
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  Speaker 7: right right.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's an interesting point about it, though.
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  Speaker 8: It's that he that he would expect this and demand this.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's on brand, And I think it's even more
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  Speaker 9: troubling because it shows that he's surrounding himself with people
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  Speaker 9: who adore him. There are no contricting, conflicting ideas. There's
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  Speaker 9: no one challenging him. So if he wants to do
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  Speaker 9: something like bam n or he wants to do something
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  Speaker 9: like yus a nuke, or he wants to do something
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  Speaker 9: like take on Venezuela, there's not a single voice around
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  Speaker 9: him that can offer any kind of contrast or challenge.
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  Speaker 9: All the way down to his assistant, everyone is in
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  Speaker 9: this circle of sycophants, which is very, very dangerous.
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  Speaker 8: And you see that more or in this administration, this
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  Speaker 8: second administration that he's in the the first right, The
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  Speaker 8: loyalty around him is just insane. Look, I have been
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  Speaker 8: part of two administrations. I have never seen a role
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  Speaker 8: like this. It is unusual to have someone basically be
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  Speaker 8: a human printer and only put in front of you
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  Speaker 8: stories that you like. Make sure you keep all the
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  Speaker 8: bad stuff away from him. It is so it's a
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  Speaker 8: disadvantage to the American people because it is important for
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  Speaker 8: the president to hear both sides, the good stuff and
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  Speaker 8: the bad stuff. Is it is insane and I have
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  Speaker 8: never seen anything like this. But again, it plays to
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  Speaker 8: what Trump likes, pure complete loyalty, and you see that
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  Speaker 8: more around him this time around, certainly than you did
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  Speaker 8: in the first time.