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Trump wants his threat capability maintained · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: And we did find out. Let's bring in our panel
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it. Real Clear Politics co founder and president,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Bevin, John McCarthy, former Senior Advisor for Political Engagement
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  Speaker 1: for President Joe Biden, and Mary Catherine Ham Fox News contributors.
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  Speaker 1: So there have been some strikes that we understand are
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  Speaker 1: mostly along the straight up hor moves, but Iranian assets there.
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  Speaker 1: Vice President Jade Vance putting this out on Twitter. Not
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  Speaker 1: long ago, Iron signed a cease fare agreement. We have
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  Speaker 1: honored it. If they have disagreements about how the MoU
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  Speaker 1: is being applied, they can pick up the phone, but
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  Speaker 1: violence will be met with violence. I mean, Tom, does
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  Speaker 1: this end in any kind of lasting, reliable agreement.
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  Speaker 2: Well, anybody who thought that the Iranians were going to
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  Speaker 2: be good to their word, I think maybe that was
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  Speaker 2: wishful thinking. And so we find ourselves in a situation
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  Speaker 2: where we're now trying to keep this ceasefire together, but
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  Speaker 2: we're in a tit for tat and it's I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how we're going to how this is going to
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  Speaker 2: work out. We seem stuck in the cycle, and the
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  Speaker 2: administration is trying to create this space where they can
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  Speaker 2: have these negotiations and try and move the ball down
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  Speaker 2: the field. But so far they seem to be struggling well.
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  Speaker 1: And Okay, now Iron says, okay, we're going to respond.
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  Speaker 1: Where are the off ramps?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it's so far, so good, and it
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  Speaker 4: hasn't been so far so good since the first agreement
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  Speaker 4: to a ceasefire, during which the ceasefire was not honored
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  Speaker 4: on their side, nor was the straightform moves opened, which
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  Speaker 4: is why we're asking again for those things to happen.
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  Speaker 4: I do appreciate hearing from the JD Evans that violence
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  Speaker 4: will be met with violence. I think striking is important
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  Speaker 4: because I firmly believe you cannot gentle parent the Middle East,
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  Speaker 4: much less specifically Iran, and Trump wants his threat credibility maintained.
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  Speaker 4: I do think that's important to him, and it's important
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  Speaker 4: to the world order that the people believe that he
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  Speaker 4: will come after them if they violate these things.
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  Speaker 1: And listen, this has been intractable for presidents of both
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  Speaker 1: parties for decades. I mean, they've been yelling death to
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  Speaker 1: America and death to Israel on the regular. With that
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  Speaker 1: in mind, Iran has been saying part of their issue.
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  Speaker 1: Why they aren't calming down is because Israel is still
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  Speaker 1: hitting Lebanon. Israel, says Hesbelah is hitting us. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing there. Well, Access reports today that there's been
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  Speaker 1: a signing of this Israel Lebanon Framework. It says the
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  Speaker 1: framework is designed to eventually end Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon.
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  Speaker 1: A senior Hesbela affiliated lawmaker condemned the agreement and said
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  Speaker 1: Lebanese authorities would need to fight a civil war if
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to enforce it, which John gets to the problem.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of these primary negotiators may have other factions
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  Speaker 1: within their countries, within their organizations that are not on
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  Speaker 1: board with the overall deal.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean one of the tricky things about you know,
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  Speaker 3: working in a White House, serving in an administration, and
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  Speaker 3: certainly being president or vice president, is that these jobs,
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  Speaker 3: in so many ways are reactive. You know, the President
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  Speaker 3: keeps trying to find an off ram here, and you
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  Speaker 3: can understand why he's frustrated because politically this is a
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  Speaker 3: loser for him. You saw when he spoke today about
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  Speaker 3: it at the Faith and Freedom Coalition. I mean that's
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  Speaker 3: a key base for him, and I mean he really
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  Speaker 3: tried to get off it as quickly as he could.
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  Speaker 3: He started going back to the issues of lawlessness at
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  Speaker 3: the border and Democrats wanting to you know, change bathrooms
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  Speaker 3: and things like that, because that's a political red meat
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  Speaker 3: issue for his base. He needs to get his numbers up.
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  Speaker 3: He's getting a lot of pressure from members in the House,
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  Speaker 3: so you know he's trying to find an offer him
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  Speaker 3: not just for good foreign policy, but for political survival.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean slightly less balleshole than the Middle East, Washington.
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  Speaker 1: We've got plenty going on here. I want to play
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  Speaker 1: a little black and forth between Senator Slackin and House
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  Speaker 1: Minor Leader Hakeem Jeffries this idea that there's a fight
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  Speaker 1: for the soul of the Democrat Party in which wing
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  Speaker 1: is going to be calling the shots.
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  Speaker 5: There is every single day a debate going on in
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  Speaker 5: the Democratic Party. And for me, this is why I'm
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  Speaker 5: a big believer in just new leadership, significant change. The
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  Speaker 5: old models do not work for people.
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  Speaker 6: I have no idea what a list of Slacken was
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  Speaker 6: talking about there. Of course, any Democratic leader is going
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  Speaker 6: to continue to stand with their colleagues.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she says, the old models do not work. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: does that mean socialism is now the framework for what
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  Speaker 1: works at least in some of these races.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, I think they're in for a real fight.
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  Speaker 4: And look, I think she's they have a point about
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  Speaker 4: new leadership. When you look at somebody like Chuck Schumer.
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  Speaker 4: The problem is that they having to find young Democrats
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  Speaker 4: who are not very extreme progressive lefties is very hard,
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  Speaker 4: which is why when you see this new crop coming up,
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  Speaker 4: there are people who can work in blue districts and
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  Speaker 4: really out sort of one party rule areas. But once
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  Speaker 4: that becomes the picture of the party and that is
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  Speaker 4: broadcast to the rest of America in purple states, they're
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  Speaker 4: going to be like, I'm not so sure about these
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  Speaker 4: people who can't answer the question should we put murderers
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  Speaker 4: in jail? Right? That's not something that appeals to middle
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  Speaker 4: of the road voters, and I think that's something rama
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  Speaker 4: Manuel is flagging and going, how are we going to
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  Speaker 4: deal with this? But the Pelosi was sort of put down,
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  Speaker 4: like controlled by the squad in twenty nineteen, wasn't able
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  Speaker 4: to get that anti Semitism centure through or resolution through,
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  Speaker 4: and so I'm not sure that hackem Jeffreys is going
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  Speaker 4: to do any better.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and now we have to look and see it. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: some of these people are coming to be part of
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  Speaker 1: his caucus. Now they've won their primaries. It's likely they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be the winners in their general election races. John,
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  Speaker 1: how does he manage that? Because if he becomes speaker,
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  Speaker 1: if Democrats flip the House, he's now got to manage
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  Speaker 1: a very left progressive wing of his party that may
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  Speaker 1: not want to vote with him on any mainstream issues.
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  Speaker 3: You know, let's not put the car before the horse, right,
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  Speaker 3: we need to win, and I will say defund the police.
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  Speaker 3: You know, abolish ices are not winning political messages here,
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  Speaker 3: So the Democratic Party needs to find way to distance
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  Speaker 3: itself from this. The important thing here is really keep
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  Speaker 3: your eye on the prize and look at the races
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  Speaker 3: that people are actually needing to flip. The organizations that
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  Speaker 3: support candidates like this, like you know, Justice, Democrats have
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  Speaker 3: never actually flipped a seat. They just make blue places bluer.
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  Speaker 3: You actually need to look at the places where we're
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  Speaker 3: actually going to be majority makers, and they're running far
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  Speaker 3: away from these types of ideas. You know, when Democrats
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  Speaker 3: take back the House, knock on wood come November. I
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  Speaker 3: think that this will be a small but volatile part
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  Speaker 3: of the caucus. It'll be tough to manage. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're not majority makers.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a little wins from MK when you said, when, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a Polster with us. So let's talk about this.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about this Colorado race that's coming up this week,
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  Speaker 1: because that may be a bit more of an indication
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  Speaker 1: where the parties going trying to from the left unsee
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  Speaker 1: a current Democrat Diana to get out there in Colorado.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I mean overall, I think the communists, right,
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  Speaker 2: and these folks are they're not just DSA. They're not
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  Speaker 2: democratic socialists. They're socialists, they're Marxists. In some cases they're communists.
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  Speaker 2: They're not just they don't sort of have their nose
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  Speaker 2: under the tent. They are inside the tent. And there
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  Speaker 2: is a civil war. Lisle Stocking is actually right. There
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  Speaker 2: is a civil war that's going on in the Democratic
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  Speaker 2: Party right now, and we're seeing it play out in
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  Speaker 2: all of these primary races. We're going to see it
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  Speaker 2: play out in a bunch of other states, including Colorado
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  Speaker 2: coming up. But the progressive wing the Democratic Socialist wing
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  Speaker 2: whatever you want to call them, the Marxist wing of
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  Speaker 2: the party. They have all the energy, they have, all
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  Speaker 2: the juice, they have all this way, and the question
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  Speaker 2: is how how does that play nationally come November? If
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  Speaker 2: they do become a sort of the face of the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, goodfoil for Republicans, but it opens up all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of other campaign issues. All right, John, Winners and
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  Speaker 1: losers will kick off with you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I would say, of course, the winner of
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  Speaker 3: the week is actually the new dem coalition in the Congress.
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  Speaker 3: It's the moderate flank of the party. They've got three
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  Speaker 3: out of three wins this week. They're actually going to
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  Speaker 3: be the ones who make the majority. Losers, I will say,
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  Speaker 3: the ballroom. We talked about it every single day of
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  Speaker 3: the week, it seems, and now we've moved down to
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  Speaker 3: the reflecting pool. So you know, feel bad for that,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, Donald Trump's interiors are going to be
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  Speaker 3: a thing for the next few months.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Mary Catherine.
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  Speaker 4: to make supply go down. People are not going to
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  Speaker 4: invest in new housing, and eventually that's going to just
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  Speaker 2: All right, Tom, where's Montani? I mean, had a great week,
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  Speaker 2: three out of three, including two sitting congressmen, and one
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  Speaker 2: of the races, the Golden Race, was a thirty point
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  Speaker 2: blow out. It wasn't even close. So for anybody who's
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