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7.30.26 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of Today's Washington Post for Thursday,
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Speaker 1: July thirtieth, twenty twenty six. Your reader is Alastainer with
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Speaker 1: the reminder that RADIOI is for those blind with disabilities
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Speaker 1: that are difficult making it difficult to read and hold
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Speaker 1: printed material. And Today's Washington Post very far left. President
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Speaker 1: shares plan for Dallas makeover.
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Speaker 2: A multi billion dollar.
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Speaker 1: Overhaul would replace aging terminals and shuttles by Dan Domond
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Speaker 1: and Liam Scott. And then there's a picture that will
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Speaker 1: be there forever of people who know what this was.
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Speaker 1: There's a picture of doctor Anthony S. Fauci, who helped
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Speaker 1: lead the nation's pandemic response, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights
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Speaker 1: time and time again. And he has his hands on
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Speaker 1: the desk on the table in front of him, just
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Speaker 1: sort of like a piece of paper. He's got a
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Speaker 1: very stoic look.
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Speaker 2: On his face. He's not smiling.
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Speaker 1: And to his left there is an attorney with he
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Speaker 1: Fauci has on a blue suit, blue shirt and a
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Speaker 1: blue tie with I guess it's white polka dots, but
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Speaker 1: very small, small ones. And his attorney on his right
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Speaker 1: has a darker blue suit with a darker tie and
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Speaker 1: lines of white dots behind him, a whole group of
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Speaker 1: people sitting in the Senate hearing room. Fauci refuses all
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Speaker 1: questions at heated hearing. Senator Rand Paul says committee will
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Speaker 1: vote on holding him in contempt. By Dan Diamond and
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Speaker 1: Anna lys Roy and that takes up the picture and
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Speaker 1: the article four columns and the sixth column on the right.
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Speaker 1: Trump threatens hard hit for Iran retaliation for missile strike.
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Speaker 1: Comments follow US and Saudi joint strikes by terror Copp,
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Speaker 1: Alex Horton, Ellen Francis, and Susannah George below Feuci and
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Speaker 1: across four columns, the article Russia bull is a memorial
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Speaker 1: to Graham's tenacity he pushed for a measure to curb
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Speaker 1: Moscow's main source of income. This is by Noah Robertson
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Speaker 1: and at the very bottom, across the whole bottom of
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Speaker 1: the paper, below the fold, it's a home with a
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Speaker 1: brown lawn sits next to a home with a green
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Speaker 1: one last week in Denver, and it says Colorado residents
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Speaker 1: are riding out their neighbors. Over water usage goffls, violating
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Speaker 1: restrictions and drought hit Denver have sparked tensions turning residential
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Speaker 1: street into checkerboards, A Virtue and Vice by Annie Gowan.
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Speaker 1: First article Inside the Deal to clinch Lindsey Graham's sanctions
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Speaker 1: bill from Hell. The late senator push for a bipartisan
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Speaker 1: financial bill that could curb Russia's main source of income.
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Speaker 1: And there's a picture of Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of
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Speaker 1: the late Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, speaking to
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Speaker 1: the media in Kiev on July tenth, the day before
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Speaker 1: his death.
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Speaker 2: By Noah Robertson.
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Speaker 1: In a meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimia Zelensky at the
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Speaker 1: NATO summit in Turkey this month, Senator Lindsey Graham had
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Speaker 1: one request. The South Carolina Republican asked Zelensky, who was
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Speaker 1: speaking later that day with President Donald Trump, to promote
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Speaker 1: the Senator's bill to harden sanctions on Russia's wartime economy.
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Speaker 1: Multiple US officials familiar with the meeting said, speaking on
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Speaker 1: the condition of anonymity, to discuss the private convass private session.
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Speaker 2: The senator traveled to.
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Speaker 1: Kiev days later, where he received the news that the
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Speaker 1: White House was backing the bill. To celebrate, Graham called
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Speaker 1: Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, his longtime partner on
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Speaker 1: the legislation. I've never seen him so exuberant. He said
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Speaker 1: to me, this is a big effan deal. We all
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Speaker 1: did good, Blumenthal said in an interview. Lawmakers and officials
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Speaker 1: familiar with the push to secure a deal on the
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Speaker 1: Russia sanctions legislation described it as a memorial to Graham's tenacity.
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Speaker 1: The senator abruptly died of a heart condition shortly after
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Speaker 1: returning from Ukraine, but up until the final hours of
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Speaker 1: his life, he was working on legislation that took more
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Speaker 1: than a year to negotiate. Multiple colleagues said the bill
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Speaker 1: would have failed without him. We didn't have a lot
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Speaker 1: of confidence that it was even possible, said holhah Stefanishna,
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Speaker 1: Ukraine's ambassador to Washington until earlier this month. Senator Graham's
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Speaker 1: persistence and leadership brought everyone to this point, he said.
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Speaker 1: On Tuesday, the Senate voted eighty six to twelve to
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Speaker 1: take up the package, which would allow the administration to
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Speaker 1: impose up to one hundred percent tariffs on the top
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Speaker 1: five purchasers of Russian oil and natural gas, among other penalties.
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Speaker 1: It would also extend sanctions on Iran. After a late
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Speaker 1: push from the Trump administration, The White House said it
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Speaker 1: supported the levies against Tehran, but otherwise declined to comment
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Speaker 1: on Graham's efforts to move the legislation. Supporters have framed
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Speaker 1: the bill as a high point for US support for
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Speaker 1: Ukraine under the second Trump administration, which is vacillated in
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Speaker 1: its support for Kiev and Zelensky. Many lawmakers have argued
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Speaker 1: the financial penalties could help force Russia and President Vladimir
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Speaker 1: Putin to negotiate a settlement to end his full scale
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Speaker 1: invasion now in its fifth year. Zelensky pressed for lawmakers
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Speaker 1: to pass the legislation while meeting with the Senate on
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Speaker 1: Tuesday night after attending Graham's funeral. It's not only about money,
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Speaker 1: Zelensky told reporters Tuesday, before watching the bill advance inside
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Speaker 1: the Senate chamber. He called the legislation a big signal
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Speaker 1: of US support for Ukraine and Europe. The Biden administration
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Speaker 1: imposed multiple rounds of sanctions on Russia intended to cleave
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Speaker 1: Moscow from the global financial system and cap its oil profits.
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Speaker 1: Despite punishing the Russian economy, the penalties have not stopped
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Speaker 1: the Kremlin from continuing its war effort. A spokesperson for
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Speaker 1: Graham said the senator wanted to work on a bill
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Speaker 1: that would put much more intense pressure on Russia's economy.
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Speaker 1: The spokesperson said, describing the senator's vision, we need something
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Speaker 1: with teeth, and we need something big. He called it
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Speaker 1: the Sanctions Bill from Hell. During his campaign, Trump repeatedly
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Speaker 1: promised to settle the conflict within a day and began
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Speaker 1: cutting US support for Ukraine immediately after returning to office.
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Speaker 1: In a disastrous meeting at the Oval Office last February,
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Speaker 1: Trump accused Zelensky of not showing sufficient gratitude for American
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Speaker 1: assistance and expelled the Ukrainian delegation from the White House.
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Speaker 1: Lawmakers in Age said the meeting increased the significance of
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Speaker 1: Graham and Blumenthal sanctions bill, which became an emblem of
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Speaker 1: Congress's by partisan support for Ukraine. The legislation initially would
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Speaker 1: have allowed the administration despite five hundred percent tariffs on
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Speaker 1: purchasers of Russian uranium and energy.
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Speaker 2: He quickly received the backing of.
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Speaker 1: Eighty five Senators and almost unheard of total and apolarized Congress,
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Speaker 1: but the bills stalled without support from the White House,
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Speaker 1: and as Democrats wavered over granting Trump more authority to
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Speaker 1: restrict trade following the President's Liberation Day tariffs on countries
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Speaker 1: around the world last spring. Y early this year, some
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Speaker 1: lawmakers began to give up on the legislation and instead
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Speaker 1: pursued other packages meant to halt Russia's shadow fleet of
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Speaker 1: illicit tankers and send Ukraine more security assistants, multiple officials said.
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Speaker 1: One turning point came after a group of lawmakers led
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Speaker 1: by Senator Janine Shahin, Democrat of New Hampshire, visited Ukraine
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Speaker 1: in February.
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Speaker 2: We love all your bills.
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Speaker 1: Said one US official involved in the negotiations, speaking on
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Speaker 1: the condition of anonymity to describe the message from Ukrainian officials,
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Speaker 1: But we need something. Lawmakers and staff members on the
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Speaker 1: Senate Foreign Relations Committee grew more involved in the talks
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Speaker 1: over the coming months as Graham continued to lobby Trump.
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Speaker 2: If we were going to.
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Speaker 1: Get through both houses of Congress, we probably needed some
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Speaker 1: support from the White House, she said in an interview.
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Speaker 1: Graham had the best relationship with the President by the
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Speaker 1: time of the NATO summit and anchor Turkey. Multiple officials
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Speaker 1: said the US Treasury Department was the last hold out
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Speaker 1: on agreeing to the bill within the administration, concerned about
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Speaker 1: the potential impact on the US economy. At a dinner
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Speaker 1: hosted by US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Brock, with a
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Speaker 1: harpist playing in the background and had a residence overlooking
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Speaker 1: the anchor, Scwa Chain approached the Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent.
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Speaker 1: I laid out the case for a while. I thought
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Speaker 1: it was so critical that we do this. He was
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Speaker 1: very responsive Assent that is, and said, we will get
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Speaker 1: you somebody to work with. We will get this done,
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Speaker 1: Shahen said. The Treasury Department dropped its opposition by the
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Speaker 1: end of the week, shortly after the Senate of sponsoring
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Speaker 1: the legislation released a statement announcing that Trump administration had
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Speaker 1: agreed to support the bill. A spokesperson for Assent didn't
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Speaker 1: respond to her request for comment. Graham held a news
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Speaker 1: conference in Kiev where he lauded the sanctions bill while
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Speaker 1: standing in front of Russian military equipment seized during the conflict.
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Speaker 1: I've never been more optimist than i am today that
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Speaker 1: we have the.
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Speaker 2: Formula to end this war, Graham said.
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Speaker 1: And there is a picture of him standing in front
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Speaker 1: of that looks like dilapidated and crushed military equipment. Well,
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Speaker 1: the latest version of the bill has more than sixty
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Speaker 1: co sponsors, all but guaranteeing its path through the Senate.
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Speaker 1: Some Democrats still argue that the legislation hands too much
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Speaker 1: power to the White House.
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Speaker 2: In a statement, Representative Gregory Meeks of New York.
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Speaker 1: The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called
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Speaker 1: the bill a trojan horse for terror for authorities that
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Speaker 1: Trump had repeatedly abused. Some analysts have also been skeptical
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Speaker 1: that the legislation can compel Russia to halt its invasion.
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Speaker 1: Richard Conley, an expert on the Russian economy at the
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Speaker 1: Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London, said
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Speaker 1: the main purchasers of Russian oil could refuse to comply
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Speaker 1: with the law or increase purchases through the black market.
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Speaker 1: The row in Iran, which has raised global demand for oil,
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Speaker 1: probably would also make the legislation harder to enforce, Conley argued.
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Speaker 1: The mere term picture, is there still going to be
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Speaker 1: an appetite for Russian crude? Conley said, a Congressional aid
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Speaker 1: supportive of the administration speaking on the condition of anonimnity
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Speaker 1: to discuss the criticisms of the bill, argued that the
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Speaker 1: threat of US sanctions could still discourage some countries from
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Speaker 1: buying Russian oil, or at least allow them to negotiate
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Speaker 1: a lower price. Bloomenthal, too acknowledged that the bill wasn't perfect,
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Speaker 1: but noticed that the tariff's provision had been substantially narrowed.
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Speaker 1: He argued, the legislation, which has posthumously been renamed after Graham,
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Speaker 1: was a rare and significant foreign policy win in a
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Speaker 1: divided Congress. It's not the end, but it may not
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Speaker 1: even be the beginning of the end. But Putin no
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Speaker 1: longer seems invulnerable, Bloomenthal said. Our next article, of course,
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Speaker 1: concerns Kentucky rand Paul threatens to hold Fauci in contempt
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Speaker 1: after he declines to answer questions. The former official invoked
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Speaker 1: the Fifth Amendment in response to all questions at hearing
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Speaker 1: after alleging the GOP senator was seeking to wrongly trap
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Speaker 1: him with perjury charges by Dan Diamond and Anna Lys
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Speaker 1: roy And at the top of the article is a
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Speaker 1: picture of David Schertler, an attorney for the infectious disease
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Speaker 1: expert Anthony S. Fauci is removed by Capitol police from
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Speaker 1: a Senate hearing Wednesday. I have described him earlier in
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Speaker 1: that description of the front page as the gentleman with
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Speaker 1: a darker blue suit and the darker tie.
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Speaker 2: It is he that.
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Speaker 1: Is being removed, and the picture is of him with
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Speaker 1: a briefcase on top of the table. He is looking
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Speaker 1: at Fauci, who is also looking up at him, and
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Speaker 1: there is a Capital policeman behind the attorney. You don't
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Speaker 1: see leaving, but you see him standing up getting ready
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Speaker 1: to leave.
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Speaker 2: Anthony S.
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Speaker 1: Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment during a Senat heering Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: We are Republicans pressed the retired government scientist on whether
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Speaker 1: he was sufficiently truthful in past testimony about the coronavirus pandemic.
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Speaker 1: Senator Rant Paul, Republican of Kentucky, a longtime adversary of Fauci,
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Speaker 1: concluded the nearly three hour hearing by saying the committee
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Speaker 1: is planning a vote next week on whether to hold
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Speaker 1: Fouci in contempt of Congress. Paul acknowledged to GOP colleagues
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Speaker 1: that there are legal questions about whether Fauci could be
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Speaker 1: held in contempt, citing President Joe Biden's preemptive pardon of
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Speaker 1: Fouci last year, but contended that Fauci he should have
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Speaker 1: just answered questions on Wednesday, even if it meant admitting
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Speaker 1: to a past lie or other wrongdoing. Fauci, who helped
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Speaker 1: lead the nation's pandemic response and frequently appeared before Congress
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Speaker 1: during his fifty four year government career, began the hearing
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Speaker 1: by saying that it pains me to now invoke this
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Speaker 1: constitutional right against self incrimination. But Fauci alleged that Paul,
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Speaker 1: who convened Wednesday's hearing, was wrongly seeking to trap him
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Speaker 1: in a misstep that could lead to perjury charges. Fauci said,
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Speaker 1: under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right,
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Speaker 1: who under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, to refrain
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Speaker 1: from answering your questions. He subsequently declined to answer questions
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Speaker 1: from Paul, who began the hearing by asking Ferrouchie about
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Speaker 1: the pandemic response and whether there was a folder in
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Speaker 1: front of him on the table, and other law makers
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Speaker 1: invoking the Fifth dozens of times. Senator Josh Hawley, Republican
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Speaker 1: of Missouri, peppered Fauci with basic questions such as the
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Speaker 1: day of the week and what color tie he was wearing.
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Speaker 1: Ferruci declined to answer those questions too. At times, senators
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Speaker 1: grew heated with Holly, alternately using a mocking tone, repeatedly
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Speaker 1: referring to Fauci as doc and raising his voice to
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Speaker 1: laceen to him. At one point, a Holly staffer popped
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Speaker 1: up an image of a magazine cover for which Ferruci
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Speaker 1: posed in September of twenty twenty. You became a narcissist
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Speaker 1: and a maglamine and a liar, Hally said. When it
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Speaker 1: was Senator Bernie Marino's turn, the Ohio Republican hurled expletives
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Speaker 1: at Fochi.
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Speaker 2: Do you feel like you're in deep shit?
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Speaker 1: The senator asked. At one point Fauci pleaded. The fifth
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Speaker 1: Democrats meanwhile praised Fauchi as a hero and thanked him
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Speaker 1: for his work fighting infectious diseases. Fouchi's lawyer alleged that
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Speaker 1: Paul was fixated on Fauci after their clashes at the
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Speaker 1: height of the pandemic, referring to a twenty twenty one
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Speaker 1: incident in which the two men traded accusations of lying,
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Speaker 1: and the Senator's sole purpose for the hearing was to
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Speaker 1: punish Fauci and see him imprison The accusations that Charon
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Speaker 1: Paul continues to propagate are false and disgrateful, and we
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Speaker 1: will examine all options to hold him accountable, David Schuler,
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Speaker 1: Fauchi's attorney, said in a statement. In Paul's opening statement,
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Speaker 1: he repeated his past allegations that Fauci, a longtime leader
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Speaker 1: at the National Institutes of Health, was involved in covering
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Speaker 1: up the possibility that the coronavirus outbreak beginn with the
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Speaker 1: lab leak in Wuhan, China. Paul is also repeatedly alleged
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Speaker 1: that Ferrcie lied in past hearings about the NIH's role
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Speaker 1: funding coronavirus research in Wuhan before the pandemic began, and
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Speaker 1: has repeatedly blamed Ferci for millions of death related to
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Speaker 1: the outbreak and said that the infectious disease expert should
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Speaker 1: be imprisoned. Senator Gary Peters of Michigan, the committee's top democrat,
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Speaker 1: called Paul's efforts biased. Peters said one sided investigations designed
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Speaker 1: to validate predetermined conclusions do not serve the American people.
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Speaker 1: Fauci's nine answers frustrated Republican senators and led to complications
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Speaker 1: of their own. After Fauci pleaded the fifth to each
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Speaker 1: of Paul's opening questions, the senator warned the former official
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Speaker 1: it was against the law to obstruct the investigation and
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Speaker 1: threatened repercussions.
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Speaker 2: For Fouchie's unresponsiveness.
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Speaker 1: Schertler, seated at the table next to Fauci, asked to
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Speaker 1: make a comment. Paul said Shirtler was not recognized, criticizing
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Speaker 1: him for sitting at the table next to his client
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Speaker 1: when he had been told not to, and threatened to
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Speaker 1: remove him, and Marino gestured for security. Another word and
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Speaker 1: you're gone, Paul said, very well. Shirtler responded. Peter said
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Speaker 1: he would like to hear what Fauchi's attorney had to say.
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Speaker 1: Paul again declined to recognize the attorney and accused him
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Speaker 1: of disrupting the proceedings. Will you allow me to make
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Speaker 1: a short statement, Fauci's attorney asked again. Paul called for
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Speaker 1: security to remove him. Ay, bye, bye, the attorney said,
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Speaker 1: as he picked up his briefcase and was escorted out.
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Speaker 1: Ahead of the hearing, Paul released more than a thousand
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Speaker 1: pages of Fauci's personal records, including a diary that contained
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Speaker 1: his unvarnished thoughts on President Donald Trump and other officials,
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Speaker 1: saying that Fauci's private comments conflicted with his public statements
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Speaker 1: and testimony. The eighty five year old Fauci, who last
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Speaker 1: faced the Senate in September twenty twenty two and retired
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Speaker 1: from government later that year, has persistently denied Paul's allegations,
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Speaker 1: and on Wednesday said that Paul's decision to release his
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Speaker 1: personal diary was aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me before
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Speaker 1: the hearing. He also said that he has already spent
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Speaker 1: days answering questions about the very issues that are now
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Speaker 1: the subject of his hearing, referring to his past appearances
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Speaker 1: before Congress. The only conclusion I can reach is that
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Speaker 1: the sole reason he is calling me before this committee
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Speaker 1: is to get me to say something, anything that could
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Speaker 1: vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up in
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Speaker 1: his words behind bars. Vircie said Fauchi was preemptively pardoned
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Speaker 1: by Biden before he left office, with Biden's saying that
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Speaker 1: Fauci and other officials receiving preemptive pardons had not committed wrongdoing,
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Speaker 1: but were at risk from the incoming Trump administration. Ahead
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Speaker 1: of the hearing, Paul and other Republicans had said if
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Speaker 1: Fauci lied to the Senate on Wednesday, it would fall
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Speaker 1: outside the protections conveyed by Biden's pardon. Paul has insisted
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Speaker 1: that scrutiny of Fauci is necessary. Ahead of the hearing,
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Speaker 1: Fauci's allies dismissed Paul's investigation as baseless, pointing to examples
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Speaker 1: of Fauci publicly acknowledging the possibility that the virus leaked
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Speaker 1: from a lab beginning in early twenty twenty. No credible
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Speaker 1: evidence has been produced to support these absurd challenges, more
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Speaker 1: than one hundred and fifty scientists, physicians, and other Fauci
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Speaker 1: supporters wrote in an open letter released Tuesday, adding these
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Speaker 1: conspiracy theories have led to a five year period of
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Speaker 1: harassment and threats of violence directed at doctor Fauci and
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Speaker 1: his family. Infectious disease experts have also insisted to Paul
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Speaker 1: and other Republicans that while the NIH funded virus research
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Speaker 1: in Ruhan, where the coronavirus outbreak was first detected in
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, the work could not have sparked the pandemic,
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Speaker 1: but Paul and his allies appear to be winning the
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Speaker 1: battle of public opinion. Fifty seven percent of respondents to
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Speaker 1: a May twenty twenty five economist Slash Yugov poll said
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Speaker 1: it was probably or definitely true that the coronavirus originated
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Speaker 1: in a Chinese laboratory, while seventeen percent said that it
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Speaker 1: was probably or definitively false. Another twenty five was unsure.
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Speaker 1: Trump and his White House have embraced the idea, too,
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Speaker 1: creating a website that calls the elab liaked the true
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Speaker 1: origin of the pandemic without sharing any definitive proof. Paul,
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Speaker 1: who assumed control of the Senate's Government Oversight Panel in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five after Republicans won control of the Chamber,
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Speaker 1: has spent years investigating the oranges of COVID nineteen. Beginning
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, Paul has used congressional hearings to grill
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Speaker 1: Erchie over that issue and his handling of the pandemic generally.
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Speaker 1: Videos of their tense exchanges have circulated on social media. Fercie,
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Speaker 1: who last based off with Paul publicly in twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 1: has repeatedly denied accusations from the GOP senator and other Republicans.
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Speaker 1: In one hearing, Fauci told Paul that the INNAH has
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Speaker 1: not ever and does not now fund gain a function
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Speaker 1: research a type of research involving the manipulation of viruses
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Speaker 1: or other microbes at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four also battled GOP lawmakers at a
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Speaker 1: house hearing, his most recent previous appearance in front of Congress,
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Speaker 1: dismissing some of their allegations as simply preposterous. In twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three, Paul published a book about what he called
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Speaker 1: the Great COVID cover Up, featuring a photo of Fauci
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Speaker 1: wearing a mask on the cover, and during the pandemic,
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Speaker 1: he solicited campaign donations through a website calling for Fauci
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Speaker 1: to be fired. Ahead of Wednesday's hearing, Paul released a
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Speaker 1: slew of documents that have been embarrassing for Fouci and
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Speaker 1: created new complications for him. In one release, Paul published
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Speaker 1: an internal NIH. He published internal NIH emails that appear
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Speaker 1: to show Fauci and his colleagues strategizing about how to
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Speaker 1: win prizes during the pandemic, an issue that Republicans raised
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Speaker 1: at the hearing. A next article, Trump unveiled Dellas makeover
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Speaker 1: after months of personal edits. The multi billion dollar project
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Speaker 1: to overhaul the airport would replace aging terminals and eliminate
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Speaker 1: its long disparaged people movers by Dan Diamond and Liam Scott.
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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump on Wednesday and earned a sweeping plan
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Speaker 1: to remake Dallas International Airport, including building new terminals and
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Speaker 1: doing away with the airport's long criticized shuttles, as part
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Speaker 1: of his broader quest to remake Washington.
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Speaker 2: It's time to ensure that.
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Speaker 1: The United States has the greatest airports anywhere in the world,
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Speaker 1: and we're starting right here with the capital city, Trump
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Speaker 1: said in the Oval Office, as a model of the
30:21
Speaker 1: Dallas redesign sat on the resolute desk. Trump contended his
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Speaker 1: overhaul was necessary because Dallas was one of the worst
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Speaker 1: airports anywhere in the world, citing consumer satisfaction surveys. He added,
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Speaker 1: whether you're a Republican or Democrat, you don't want to
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Speaker 1: go and be subjected to this airport because this airport
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Speaker 1: is a terrible place to be. Trump has spent months
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Speaker 1: considering how to overhaul Dallas, hearing pitches in the Oval
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Speaker 1: office from rival construction and design firms looking at mock
31:01
Speaker 1: up designs. At the briefing, he said he reviewed more
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Speaker 1: than thirty proposals. Under his plan, the underground train would
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Speaker 1: be fully built out to take passengers to their terminals,
31:16
Speaker 1: rather than relying on the airport's shuttles called people movers,
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Speaker 1: and five terminals would be built to replace the four
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Speaker 1: existing ones, according to four people who spoke on the
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Speaker 1: condition of anonymnity to preview the plan, Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy,
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Speaker 1: who joined Trump at the announcement, compared the people movers
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Speaker 1: to vehicles from the Star Wars franchise. Duffy said, they
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Speaker 1: are slow and people are angry about them. We are
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Speaker 1: going to get rid of those. And there is a
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Speaker 1: picture of the people movers which have been a long
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Speaker 1: time fixture at Dallas International Airport, and they really do
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Speaker 1: like military movers without the long wheels. They're just four tires,
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Speaker 1: but they are rather unusual looking and not very attractive encumbersome. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: a new tunnel would allow pedestrians to walk between the terminals,
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Speaker 1: and more moving walkways would be added at the briefing,
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Speaker 1: Trump said the project would add more than five million
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Speaker 1: square feet of new or renovated space, including back completely
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Speaker 1: replacing concourses C and D, all while preserving the iconic
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Speaker 1: original terminal.
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Speaker 2: The president said they would.
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Speaker 1: Also construct a parking garage across from the airport that
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Speaker 1: would be able to fit around thirty two thousand cars.
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Speaker 1: We're going to have a magnificent garage, he said. The
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Speaker 1: Trump approved design also calls for large glass windows and
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Speaker 1: gold accents throughout the airport, such as high gold mirrored ceilings.
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Speaker 1: The project is estimated to cost more than twenty billion
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Speaker 1: and take years to complete.
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Speaker 2: Dallas is about twenty five miles from.
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Speaker 1: Downtown Washington and is run by the Metropolitan Washington Airport's Authority,
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Speaker 1: which would largely finance the renovations by issuing new bonds
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Speaker 1: the Metropolitan Washington Airport's Authority, said, United CEO Scott Kirby,
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Speaker 1: Metropolitan's Authority CEO Jack Potter and the Metropolitan Airport's Authority
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Speaker 1: board member Trent Morris joined Trump for the announcement. Potter
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Speaker 1: said the project would not require federal money because Metropolitan
33:56
Speaker 1: Washington United in other airlines had agreed to help fund
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Speaker 1: the project. We're off to a fast start here, Potter said,
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Speaker 1: and he added that he aimed for the construction to
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Speaker 1: have minimal impact on travelers as they transit the airport.
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Speaker 1: CBS News first reported Trump's planned announcement on Wednesday morning.
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Speaker 1: At Dallas, passengers and employees were excited about the possibility
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Speaker 1: of replacing the people movers.
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Speaker 2: I hate them.
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Speaker 1: I want them to go away, said Virginia resident Richard
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Speaker 1: Wayne Hayes, Jor, who was en route to Germany a
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Speaker 1: few months ago. Hayes said he was stuck in a
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Speaker 1: people mover for about forty five minutes on the tarmac.
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Speaker 1: Everybody was just about to lose their minds, he said.
34:49
Speaker 1: A Delta ground crew employee said they were also thrilled
34:54
Speaker 1: about the prospect of no longer needing to deal with
34:57
Speaker 1: the people movers on the tarmac. There's so many out there.
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Speaker 1: You're always waiting for them, dodging them. They drive too fast,
35:05
Speaker 1: you don't know when they're going to turn. They don't
35:08
Speaker 1: use signals, said the employee, who spoke on the condition
35:12
Speaker 1: of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to
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Speaker 1: the press. Administration officials have previously cast Trump's proposed overhaul
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Speaker 1: of Dallas as part of his broader plan to remake
35:25
Speaker 1: the Washington region, which includes beautifying public spaces and major thoroughfares.
35:32
Speaker 1: While some of the president's moves have been controversial, such
35:36
Speaker 1: as his desire to build a new White House ballroom
35:40
Speaker 1: and a two hundred and fifty foot triumphal arch, his
35:43
Speaker 1: early efforts regarding Dallas have won some praise from regular critics.
35:49
Speaker 1: Trump in December said his administration would rebuild Dallas, praising
35:55
Speaker 1: original architect Aerosurianen's vision for the airport's flagship terminal, while
36:02
Speaker 1: saying he wanted to make it easier to navigate. It
36:06
Speaker 1: should be a great airport, and it's not a good
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Speaker 1: airport at all. It's a terrible airport.
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Speaker 2: We're going to.
36:12
Speaker 1: Make that into something really spectacular. We have an amazing
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Speaker 1: plan for it. Trump added, Washingtonians make a habit of
36:22
Speaker 1: lamenting Dallas over its distance from the city and the
36:25
Speaker 1: airport's reliance on the mobile lounges that carry passengers to
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Speaker 1: different areas of the airport. In November, a people mo
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Speaker 1: we crashed into a concourse dock, sending at least eighteen
36:39
Speaker 1: people to the hospital with non life threatening injuries, MWAA
36:44
Speaker 1: said at the time. Morse, a former White House official
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Speaker 1: who Trump appointed to the mwaa's board, told The Washington
36:52
Speaker 1: Post last year that the incident was another reason to
36:56
Speaker 1: get rid of shuttles he deemed slow, outdated, and dangerous.
37:02
Speaker 1: Mobile lounges are a distinct feature to dulles designed by
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Speaker 1: Serenyin in nineteen fifty eight. The modernist structure was built
37:11
Speaker 1: without any concourses or gates. The people movers were created
37:16
Speaker 1: as a solution for moving passengers between the airport terminals
37:21
Speaker 1: and planes. I'm going inside or front Second Page fed
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Speaker 1: relied on accounts from famed mobster TV actress to build
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Speaker 1: Komi case. In a series of defense filings Tuesday, the
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Speaker 1: former FBI director urged a judge to dismiss the charges
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Speaker 1: that he threatened President Donald Trump's life, calling the investigation
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Speaker 1: and improper effort to punish him for his criticism of
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Speaker 1: the president. By Jeremy Roebuck, f f I agents interviewed
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Speaker 1: convicted mos mobster Salvador Sammy the Bull Gravano, and relied
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Speaker 1: on statements from an actress from the TV show Scandal
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Speaker 1: as part of what lawyers for former FBI Director James B.
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Speaker 1: Comy described late Tuesday as a highly unusual effort to
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Speaker 1: prosecute him over a social media post. Those new details
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Speaker 1: emerged in a series of court followings from Comy's defense
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Speaker 1: team attacking the charges filed against him earlier this year
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Speaker 1: over a photo he posted the instagram of seashells spelling
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Speaker 1: out eighty six forty seven. The Justice Department has characterized
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Speaker 1: the May twenty twenty five posts as a threat to
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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump, saying that eighty six is known slang
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Speaker 1: for murder and seven refers to Trump, the forty seventh
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Speaker 1: president of the United States. Komi has apologized for the posting,
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Speaker 1: but denied he had any violent intent and derided the
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Speaker 1: prosecution as an improper effort to target him for his
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Speaker 1: vocal criticism of the president. The filings by Komi's defense
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Speaker 1: include FBI search warrant applications for Komy's digital accounts, memos
39:30
Speaker 1: detailing several interviews conducted by agents, and other government documents
39:35
Speaker 1: provided to Komy's defense teal team in preparation for trial.
39:41
Speaker 1: They provide the fullest account to date of the Justice
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Speaker 1: Department's stopping start efforts over nearly a year to secure
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Speaker 1: an indictment in the face of sustained pressure from the
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Speaker 1: White House to charge Komi with a crime. Ample objective evidence,
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Speaker 1: much of which comes directly from government officials own public
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Speaker 1: statements and admissions, establishes that the President's animus towards mister
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Speaker 1: Komi led to his vindictive and selective prosecution. Komy's lawyers
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Speaker 1: wrote the Justice Department has not yet fouled its formal
40:19
Speaker 1: response to Komy's claims. In the Tuesday filings, Komy's attorneys
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Speaker 1: described eighty six forty seven as a slogan used to
40:30
Speaker 1: oppose President Trump. At one point, shortly after Komy took
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Speaker 1: down the photo of the shells, which he has said
40:39
Speaker 1: he stumbled across while walking on a beach in North Carolina,
40:43
Speaker 1: a top Justice Department official ordered the Secret Service to
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Speaker 1: surveil the former FBI director and his wife, The defense
40:51
Speaker 1: lawyer said. They said government documents showed Trump's sought updates
40:56
Speaker 1: on that surveillance in real time as he turned returned
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Speaker 1: from a foreign trip on Air Force One. The filings
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Speaker 1: indicate that even as agents forged ahead with their investigation,
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Speaker 1: they repeatedly struggled to find evidence to substantiate the central
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Speaker 1: claim of their case that imposting the photo, Komi knowingly
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Speaker 1: posed a true threat to the president. For instance, when
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Speaker 1: an agent interviewed Gravano, a Gambino crime family men to
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Speaker 1: turned government co operator this spring, in hopes he would
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Speaker 1: back up their contention that eighty six was well known
41:39
Speaker 1: mafia slang, the mobster insisted, according to the defense filings,
41:44
Speaker 1: that a gangster would never use that term. Gravano did
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Speaker 1: not indicate that he viewed Comy's seashell post as a
41:52
Speaker 1: threat to personally attack the president, according to a memo
41:57
Speaker 1: recounting that interview included a defense filings, but he acknowledged
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Speaker 1: that former FBI director, who had prosecuted mob cases earlier
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Speaker 1: in his career, would have likely heard this term eighty
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Speaker 1: six used with violent connotations previously. Gravano urged the investigators
42:20
Speaker 1: to speak to John Gleeson, a famed former New York
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Speaker 1: mob prosecutor and contemporary of Komy's, to back up his assessment.
42:30
Speaker 1: It was not clear from the filings Tuesday whether the
42:33
Speaker 1: FBI followed up on that suggestion, but Komy's team did
42:38
Speaker 1: the claim that eighty six is mafia jargon for kill
42:43
Speaker 1: is preposterous. Gleeson, a former judge now in private practice,
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Speaker 1: wrote an an affi David included in the defense team's filings,
42:52
Speaker 1: adding if it weren't made in the context of seeking
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Speaker 1: to deprive a man of his liberty, it would be laughable.
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Speaker 1: Federal agents also interviewed a person described in the bowlings
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Speaker 1: Tuesday as an estranged forma associate of Komy. That individual
43:13
Speaker 1: is identified in the document only as Person one, and
43:17
Speaker 1: their job in connection to Komy is not detailed. That
43:22
Speaker 1: person made clear from the start that she was not
43:25
Speaker 1: supportive of Komy and said she hoped he goes to
43:28
Speaker 1: jail for the crams he committed as FBI director. But
43:34
Speaker 1: she told agents she did not initially view Komy's post
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Speaker 1: as threatening and believed eighty six was slang used among
43:42
Speaker 1: workers in the few food service to describe when an
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Speaker 1: item was taken off a menu.
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Speaker 2: It was only.
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Speaker 1: After the person heard former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani on
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Speaker 1: a podcast discussing the term and the context of the
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Speaker 1: mafia that she began to believe the post could be
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Speaker 1: seen as a call for violence, the person told agents.
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Speaker 1: According to a summary of that interview included in the
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Speaker 1: Defense filings. At one point, the agents even turned to
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Speaker 1: artificial intelligence tools in hopes of finding support for the
44:19
Speaker 1: claim that eighty six was mafia slang. The tool they
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Speaker 1: used in that theory as an urban legend, according to
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Speaker 1: Comy's lawyers. Despite those setbacks, the investigation continued for nearly
44:35
Speaker 1: a year. Trump has repeatedly called for Komi to be
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Speaker 1: charged with the crime, and that pressure only intensified after
44:42
Speaker 1: a previous Justice Department effort to prosecute the Komi for
44:47
Speaker 1: alleged false statements to Congress was thrown before trial by
44:51
Speaker 1: federal judge who concluded the US attorney overseeing the case
44:56
Speaker 1: had been illegally appointed. Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondy
45:03
Speaker 1: in part over his frustration with the pace of her
45:06
Speaker 1: efforts to prosecute his perceived political eminies. The Defense dear
45:12
Speaker 1: documents Tuesday show that the investigation of Komy's Seashell post
45:18
Speaker 1: intensified shortly after her firing, under Bondy's replacement and former
45:24
Speaker 1: deputy Acting Attorney General Todd Blinch. Though department officials had
45:31
Speaker 1: previously shopped the case to federal prosecutors in Virginia, it
45:35
Speaker 1: was the US attorney's office in Raleigh, North Carolina, near
45:40
Speaker 1: the beach where Komy saw the Seashell arrangement that ultimately
45:44
Speaker 1: took up the case. FBI agents there applied for two
45:49
Speaker 1: search warrants to access Comy's electronic records in March and May.
45:55
Speaker 1: In them, they sought to undermine Comy's public apologies for
45:59
Speaker 1: the post, including during an appearance he made to explain
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Speaker 1: the situation on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Investigators
46:09
Speaker 1: cited into twenty fourteen Slate interview with actress Darby Stanchfield,
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Speaker 1: who started the TV show scandal, dictating detailing how TV's
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Speaker 1: show guests often do pre interviews with the show's producers
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Speaker 1: to work at what they will say on air. Based
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Speaker 1: on that account, the agent wrote it was likely that
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Speaker 1: Comy workshopped his apology for the Seashell post before his
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Speaker 1: appearance on Colbert's show.
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Speaker 2: That insertion was included in.
46:41
Speaker 1: One of the filings from Comy's defense teams Tuesday, as
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Speaker 1: his lawyers accused prosecutors of twisting information and hiding other
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Speaker 1: details from the magistrate judges who approved the warrants, including
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Speaker 1: investigator's previous failed attempts to substantiate the violent meaning of
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Speaker 1: eighty six. Those omissions, the attorney said, should warrant dismissal
47:05
Speaker 1: of the case. Komi's lawyers have also sought dismissal on
47:10
Speaker 1: a number of other grounds, including that Komi's post was
47:14
Speaker 1: protected by the First Amendment and that the case amounts
47:17
Speaker 1: to it an improperly vindictive prosecution, driven not by the
47:21
Speaker 1: facts but by the president's animus towards Komi. The Justice
47:27
Speaker 1: Department is expected to bowl its formal response to Komi's
47:31
Speaker 1: claims early next month, and a trial is currently scheduled
47:35
Speaker 1: for the fall. Department officials have not yet said what
47:39
Speaker 1: evidence they intend to present against Komi should they get
47:43
Speaker 1: the opportunity to present their case to a jury. Komi
47:48
Speaker 1: was charged with one count of making threats against the
47:51
Speaker 1: president and another count of transmitting a threat across state lines. Blanche,
47:57
Speaker 1: speaking to reporters about the case earlier this year, defended
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Speaker 1: the department's investigation and predicted prosecutors would be able to
48:06
Speaker 1: prove Comy's ill intent to a jury. You prove intent
48:12
Speaker 1: with witnesses, with documents, with a defendant himself to the
48:16
Speaker 1: extent it's appropriate, and that's how we will prove intent
48:21
Speaker 1: in this case Blanche said the Trump administration is halting
48:29
Speaker 1: a Medicare drug subsidy, will premiums rise. A temporary subsidence
48:37
Speaker 1: subsidy that reduced monthly premiums will end, and insurance companies
48:41
Speaker 1: are examining the impact. By Christopher Rowland, Medicare drug coverage
48:50
Speaker 1: premiums are expected to rise in twenty twenty seven after
48:54
Speaker 1: the Trump administration said Tuesday it would end a temporary
48:58
Speaker 1: subsidy that would reduced monthly premiums by an average of
49:02
Speaker 1: sixteen dollars, but it is not yet clear how much
49:06
Speaker 1: they'll increase and whether they will increase for all Medicare beniciaries.
49:13
Speaker 1: The loss of the subsidy does not translate directly to
49:17
Speaker 1: how much premiums will rise, because the companies that sell
49:20
Speaker 1: Medicare Part D drug coverage take into account many factors
49:25
Speaker 1: when setting rates. The cost of the government of the
49:28
Speaker 1: subsidy was three point six billion dollars in.
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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty six.
49:33
Speaker 1: According to KFF, a nonpartisan health policy organization, of twenty
49:40
Speaker 1: five million people enrolled in Part D plans in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six, up from twenty three million two years ago.
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Speaker 1: It's certainly possible there were that disenhanced financial support in
49:52
Speaker 1: place for twenty twenty seven. Some Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in
49:58
Speaker 1: Part D plans could face relatively steep premium increases for
50:02
Speaker 1: drug coverage next year, said Juliet Kubensky, director of kff's
50:08
Speaker 1: Program on Medicare Policy. Insurance companies received notice of the
50:13
Speaker 1: move late Tuesday, and we're examining the impact. Expected Medicare
50:18
Speaker 1: Part D rates for the twenty twenty seven will be
50:21
Speaker 1: publicly announced in September. We're closely reviewing today's announcement. At
50:27
Speaker 1: a time of sharply rising prescription drug costs, health plans
50:31
Speaker 1: are focused on keeping Part D coverage and benefits as
50:35
Speaker 1: affordable as possible for seniors, said Chris Bond, spokesman for AHIP,
50:41
Speaker 1: the insurance industry's Washington trade group. The average estimated monthly
50:48
Speaker 1: Part D premium in twenty twenty six was thirty four
50:51
Speaker 1: dollars and fifty cents, according to the National Council and Aging.
50:55
Speaker 1: Part D premiums were already four times higher than the
50:59
Speaker 1: eight dollars average minimum under Medicare Advantage, the privatized version
51:04
Speaker 1: of Medicare. Kibunskians said higher Part D premiums in Part
51:10
Speaker 1: D in twenty twenty seven could accelerate beneficiary enrollment in
51:14
Speaker 1: the privatized plans. The Department of Health and Human Services,
51:20
Speaker 1: which oversees the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, did
51:25
Speaker 1: not respond Tuesday night to a question about the amount
51:29
Speaker 1: of expected increases. CMS said it ended the subsidy, which
51:34
Speaker 1: was intended to stabilize premiums after the agency made changes
51:39
Speaker 1: to the benefits, because planned sponsors had sufficient experience under
51:46
Speaker 1: the new program to support their cost assumptions. United Healthcare,
51:51
Speaker 1: which offers Part D plans, said loss of the subsidycy
51:56
Speaker 1: was not unexpected. We are committed to working with CMS,
52:01
Speaker 1: covering seniors have access ensuring seniors have access to affordable
52:07
Speaker 1: prescription medicines. United Health spokesperson Eric Housman said, I can't
52:16
Speaker 1: read the whole article, but it's interesting. The EPA halted
52:20
Speaker 1: a study on gas stoves and asthma, but even partial
52:26
Speaker 1: results were striking. Research that used at federal grant to
52:31
Speaker 1: pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced
52:36
Speaker 1: showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was
52:41
Speaker 1: cut short after President Donald Trump took Office Paul by
52:47
Speaker 1: Jake Spring. Paul Moore's house is old. It was built
52:51
Speaker 1: around nineteen hundred as a hunting lodge near where Cleveland
52:56
Speaker 1: would develop, and his grandparents bought the home around fifty
53:00
Speaker 1: years later, converting it over the years into a three
53:03
Speaker 1: bedroom ranch that included what Moore called an old school
53:09
Speaker 1: guess stove. When he moved into the house in twenty
53:13
Speaker 1: twenty with his wife and six children, More already had
53:17
Speaker 1: debilitating asthma. He got winded walking up hills and couldn't
53:21
Speaker 1: play basketball with his children. He slept poorly and couldn't
53:25
Speaker 1: hold steady employment, instead doing odd jobs like fixing neighbors
53:29
Speaker 1: houses and cars. He was hospitalized multiple times with severe
53:34
Speaker 1: asthma attacks and almost died from being unable to breathe.
53:39
Speaker 1: My asthma was a real hindrance at the time, and
53:42
Speaker 1: I couldn't figure it why, you know, he said, Just
53:45
Speaker 1: couldn't pinpoint one thing or another.
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Speaker 2: Was it me? Is it something going on with my body?
53:52
Speaker 2: Is it something else?
53:55
Speaker 1: It turned out that researchers at Case Western Reserve University
54:00
Speaker 1: Cleveland and a local hospital network were studying asthma sufferers
54:04
Speaker 1: like More. He signed up to have his gas stove
54:07
Speaker 1: swapped out for an electric one in June twenty twenty five.
54:11
Speaker 1: That research would end up providing vital evidence on gas
54:15
Speaker 1: stove's health impacts amid fierce debate between fossil fuel advocates
54:22
Speaker 1: and climate change advocates. Moore said without the study, he
54:28
Speaker 1: has no clue how long it would have taken him
54:30
Speaker 1: to save the money to change the stove himself. The
54:34
Speaker 1: researchers spent an average of about ten thousand per household,
54:38
Speaker 1: as many old homes needed to be completely rewired to
54:42
Speaker 1: handle the larger electrical load of an industrial induction stove.
54:48
Speaker 1: What Moore didn't know is that he would be one
54:51
Speaker 1: of the last people to get a new stove as
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Speaker 1: part of his work. Ash Siegel, a case Western medical
55:02
Speaker 1: professor who had led the study, had received an eighteen
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Speaker 1: million dollar grant from the Environmental Protection Agency in December
55:10
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four to replace the stoves in twelve hundred
55:14
Speaker 1: homes of ASTHMAS sufferers in the Cleveland and Akron area
55:18
Speaker 1: of Ohio. A month before more as stove was replaced,
55:23
Speaker 1: Segel received a letter stating that the grant had been terminated.
55:27
Speaker 1: It was one of thousands cut short after President Donald
55:31
Speaker 1: Trump took office and launched aggressive efforts to reduce government spending. But,
55:39
Speaker 1: unlike many others forced to halt their research, Sigull and
55:42
Speaker 1: his co authors released their study anyway, publishing in the
55:46
Speaker 1: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in Practice this month
55:50
Speaker 1: with a fraction of the intended sample size. Still removing
55:55
Speaker 1: the gas stoves relieved the participants asthma so much that
55:59
Speaker 1: the results were clear, even with only eighty five of them,
56:03
Speaker 1: according to two scientists to review the mythology but were
56:07
Speaker 1: not involved in the study. And with that, I read
56:12
Speaker 1: my last article for Radio I today. I am retiring
56:17
Speaker 1: this afternoon or after this article after many wonderful, wonderful
56:22
Speaker 1: years being associated with Radio I. I applaud Lucy Bill
56:29
Speaker 1: and Greta for all they have done over the past
56:33
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56:37
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56:42
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Speaker 2: Thank you all.
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Speaker 1: Thank you to the listeners for putting up with me
56:48
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