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Marc Beckman | Exclusive Senior Advisor for First Lady Melania Trump | 04-28-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Mark Bekman is here. He was on Fox News this morning.
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  Speaker 1: He's in studio with those quite a bit, and he
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  Speaker 1: is WILLI though, mouthpiece for the beautiful Milania.
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  Speaker 2: Trump, who has been put through hell.
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  Speaker 1: As if Saturday night wasn't scary enough for Paul Malanya,
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  Speaker 1: now you got this a hole Jimmy Kimmel on television,
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  Speaker 1: who had an opportunity last night to either bury it
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  Speaker 1: or apologize, and he doubled down.
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  Speaker 2: He doubled down.
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  Speaker 1: Even David Axelrod is being critical of Jimmy this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and axel Rod is evil. So here he is my friend,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Beckman, marked morning, pal, How are you see?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning? Thank you for having me. How are you today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm great. I thought you'd be in studio today, what
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  Speaker 2: will you?
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  Speaker 3: I was not invited. I'm very insulted, very insulted. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy that you're fired up about Jimmy Kimmel because
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  Speaker 3: certainly I am.
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  Speaker 1: You are, and I would imagine that so is Milania.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I've read everything. I've seen all her comments,
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  Speaker 1: I read her truth social post, and you know, she's
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  Speaker 1: a very elegant, classy lady. She doesn't talk like me,
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  Speaker 1: but I think she would if she could, because I
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  Speaker 1: think she's really pissed, Mark, really pissed.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Sid, I want to ask you a question. Here's
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  Speaker 3: my point of view. I think it's time for ABC
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  Speaker 3: to fire Jimmy Kimmel. I'm sure you agree, But my
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  Speaker 3: question is this, Take the issue of the First Amendment out,
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  Speaker 3: get rid of freedom of speech for a second, and
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  Speaker 3: think about it just purely as a commercial issue. Why
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  Speaker 3: on earth would ABC and the advertisers want to affiliate
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  Speaker 3: with Kimmel when time and time again he's spewing this
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  Speaker 3: political vitriol which is resulting in this type of behavior
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  Speaker 3: in political violence. Why does ABC want to affiliate with me?
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm glad you asked me the question because I
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  Speaker 1: know you expect me writings. But here's the problem. He
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  Speaker 1: gets horrible ratings. Like you said to me, he was
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  Speaker 1: getting astronomical ratings. And I know it's gonna sound shallow,
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  Speaker 1: but you know these TV broadcast stations will deal with
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  Speaker 1: that because ratings means revenue, and they will do their
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  Speaker 1: best to explain away even the most evil behavior. If
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  Speaker 1: in fact that's the case, well, I can't figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: Is he does all that, Like you said, he inspires
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  Speaker 1: maniacs like Cole Allen and he gets no ratings and
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  Speaker 1: maybe his revenue is great. I heard that wasn't great either.
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  Speaker 2: What is it? What is this loyalty that they've got
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  Speaker 2: to him?
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  Speaker 3: I don't get it, So no viewership. We both align
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  Speaker 3: on that. Maybe I'm curious what you think about this too,
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  Speaker 3: now I'm interviewing you. Maybe there's a trends here that's
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  Speaker 3: part of a bigger, mean spirited ecosystem that the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: are running. So, for example, you're seeing this type of
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  Speaker 3: politically violent rhetoric come through academia, the government, and politics, entertainment,
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  Speaker 3: even in sports, as you are very well aware. So
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  Speaker 3: do you think there's like a bigger agenda or like
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  Speaker 3: a deeper sickness in society where we can't just have
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  Speaker 3: respect for differing opinions, we have to stoop down to
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  Speaker 3: the level of violence.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent?
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  Speaker 1: And ABC is right there at the top. You know,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's Good Morning America, there's not one person on
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  Speaker 1: that show, from Robin god bless Her, to straighthand to
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  Speaker 1: Stephanopolis that respects this president. Georgia's show on Sundays is awful.
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  Speaker 1: The only network that looks like they're trying is CBS,
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  Speaker 1: and that's because Barry Weiss has stepped in. Although although
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  Speaker 1: for some reason Barry Weiss allowed Nora O'Donnell to call
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  Speaker 1: Malani his husband a rapist and a pedophile. She read
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  Speaker 1: the manifesto, but she used those words on Sunday Night,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought that was over the line. I really did.
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  Speaker 1: But at least Barry is trying. These other networks mark
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  Speaker 1: ABC NBC. Forget about the cable networks. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: ABC NBC. Yes, they hate President Trump, and they I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying they encourage it, but they're okay with people
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  Speaker 1: like Kimmel on their airwaves.
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  Speaker 3: O'donald's comments shortly after an assassination attempt to the person
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  Speaker 3: who they were trying to kill are outlandish, they really are,
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  Speaker 3: and people are just normalizing this behavior now. It's it's
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  Speaker 3: almost as if this is common, you know, for the
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  Speaker 3: entire Democrat Party. It's interesting to mention I heard you
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  Speaker 3: mentioned before I came on. Are David Axelrod. I think
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  Speaker 3: he's the only person from the Democrat Party on the
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  Speaker 3: political side of things who's come out and said, okay,
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  Speaker 3: he should apologize. Fetterman also, I'll give betterman Fedtterman has
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  Speaker 3: some real moral clarity there as you're very well aware.
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  Speaker 1: Well Fedtaman's not even he's not even a Democratics, you're
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  Speaker 1: a publican at this point, it's silly to call them.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody else, I mean, you know, forget about you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the and from Kimmel.
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  Speaker 2: They were bad enough you and her husband.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody tried to murder him on Saturday, and no one
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  Speaker 1: has really stepped up and said anything. James Carville came
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  Speaker 1: out and said, I don't want them to kill the president.
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  Speaker 1: I want to watch him suffer. That's James Carville. He's
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  Speaker 1: got the biggest voice in the whole Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: The economy is still but going back to the Bill
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  Speaker 1: Clinton days. So yeah, not many have stepped up. David
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  Speaker 1: Oxlrod I thought was kind of weak pussyship. You will
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  Speaker 1: in his response don't buy him, but at least he
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  Speaker 1: should apologize. But you're right, he's the only one, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: So what has the Democrat Party become? Kind of like
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  Speaker 3: you're a mess. I mean, you're sitting here with a
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  Speaker 3: party that's standing up behind Mo'm Donnie's standing up behind
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  Speaker 3: ilhan Omar. What is it today that they can't get
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  Speaker 3: behind this type of a situation and say political rhetoric,
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  Speaker 3: violent rhetoric is not acceptable. Why is David Axelrod the
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  Speaker 3: only one who's done it? Half baked and fetterman? I
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  Speaker 3: know you're saying centnerments practice good purposes is on our
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  Speaker 3: team right now. But like at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: what is the Democrat Party when they're standing behind ilhan Omar,
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  Speaker 3: They're standing behind Mondani and they don't have the moral
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  Speaker 3: clarity to say this is not okay anymore. This type
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  Speaker 3: of rhetoric is getting to people who are mentally insane,
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  Speaker 3: who are sick, and they're carrying out violent acts. It's
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  Speaker 3: going from words to action.
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  Speaker 1: I did see this on Twitter a lot yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: other social media sites. When I was hammering Kimble and
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously say nice things about Milania and President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: I saw a lot of people posting videos of Trump
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  Speaker 1: saying stuff, saying stuff, and they would be like, oh, really,
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  Speaker 1: this is the guy you're defending when he said this.
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  Speaker 1: So not only are you not seeing an abundance of
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  Speaker 1: these people come to the defense of Milanya and Donald.
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  Speaker 1: But you're actually seeing people go on the opense about well,
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  Speaker 1: what do you expect when he talks like this?
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  Speaker 3: But that's when you got to look at the data.
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  Speaker 3: So the Wall Street Journal just put out a report
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  Speaker 3: yesterday that showed that political violence from Democrats towards the
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  Speaker 3: Republicans has increased so much it's at a greater level
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  Speaker 3: than from the right to the left. And it's trending
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  Speaker 3: in that direction. It's been trending in that direction for
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  Speaker 3: a while. And that's why I'm suggesting, and the First
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  Speaker 3: Lady has come out with this very strong statement, it's
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  Speaker 3: time to reconsider having people who are putting this charged,
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  Speaker 3: violent type of rhetoric out there, who are influencing people
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  Speaker 3: to commit violent acts against politicians. And to your point,
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  Speaker 3: it goes on and on. I mean, we're not even
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  Speaker 3: talking about Charlie Kirk this morning. It goes on and
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  Speaker 3: on and on. It's time to look at the data
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  Speaker 3: and say something's got to change in the system. It
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  Speaker 3: could start with respect. Mutual respect. The marketplace of ideas
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  Speaker 3: is it's a good thing for human nature, it's a
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  Speaker 3: good thing for mankind. But we're not there right now.
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  Speaker 3: We go to the lowest common denominator, and that's what
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  Speaker 3: you're talking about. That's what you were seeing in the
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  Speaker 3: trenches of social media. What about Trump with this? What
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  Speaker 3: about Trump with that? What we need to do is
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  Speaker 3: find a leader that can take us above this evil
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  Speaker 3: rhetoric and come together with a certain moticom of respect.
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  Speaker 2: True, and that's not hot game.
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  Speaker 1: Jeffries, who doubled down on that word warfare yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I want to know from you.
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  Speaker 1: You speak to Milana, I guess more than anybody next
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  Speaker 1: to the president. And forgetting about Jimmy Kimmel for a second, mark,
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  Speaker 1: but Sunday morning, well late Saturday night, did you have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to talk to her not long after the
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  Speaker 1: assassination attempt?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? I did. And you know, it's a great question.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people actually said, no one has asked
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  Speaker 3: me that question. You're the first one. It's a great question.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: And here's here's what's interesting, and we're kind of breaking
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  Speaker 3: news with you right now. First of all, the first
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  Speaker 3: lady was not afraid, she was not fearful. She was
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  Speaker 3: the first one to realize what was going on. If
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  Speaker 3: you want the videotape again, you'll see she ducked and
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  Speaker 3: went under the table. She was the first one. Second,
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  Speaker 3: she's strong, she did not get injured. People are like
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  Speaker 3: speculating that she was hurt, but if you watch the
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  Speaker 3: President's press conference afterwards, you saw her standing there in
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  Speaker 3: solidarity with everybody, and she's in good shape. She also
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  Speaker 3: realizes sid that unfortunately, this type of risk, this danger
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  Speaker 3: is now inherent to the role of being first lady,
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  Speaker 3: particularly when you're married to Donald Trump. I mean, they
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  Speaker 3: just keep trying to kill this guy over and over
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  Speaker 3: and over again. It's insane. And then finally she is
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  Speaker 3: just so happy. She was like elated that no one
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  Speaker 3: in the room was injured, everybody was healthy, and that
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  Speaker 3: of course means a lot to her. So that was
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  Speaker 3: her initial feedback that night.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she's so high profiled too. She's done some
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  Speaker 1: amazing things above and beyond what she did just for
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  Speaker 1: kids in Ukraine and all around the world. But speaking
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  Speaker 1: at the State Department a couple of months ago, speaking
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  Speaker 1: at the UN a couple of months ago, she's done
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  Speaker 1: things that know other first lady I've ever done, and
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  Speaker 1: she should because she's beautiful, and she's smart, and she's
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  Speaker 1: terrific and I'm just wondering if things like this once
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  Speaker 1: again trying to kill her husband and late night comics
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  Speaker 1: making fun of her and her husband, will that distract her,
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  Speaker 1: detract her from doing some of these very public things
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  Speaker 1: that she's done as of late, or does she stay
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  Speaker 1: on course to be that first Lady that matters.
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  Speaker 3: She's very proud to be First Lady. She's very focused.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, in a few hours she'll be taking her
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  Speaker 3: Majesty Queen Camilla into the tennis Pavilion, which our First
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  Speaker 3: Lady actually built. She went out at private funding and
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  Speaker 3: built it back in twenty twenty, which isn't spoken about
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  Speaker 3: a lot. But she's going to go over there, and
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  Speaker 3: she's got a bunch of kids that are in the
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  Speaker 3: state champions that are in her presidential AI Challenge, and
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  Speaker 3: they are going to have a really cool cross cultural
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  Speaker 3: exchange rooted in education. First, the kids are going to
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  Speaker 3: wear metaquest head goggles and use VR to learn about England.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to go to Buckingham Palace and other iconic
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  Speaker 3: locations in England where the Queen will tell them about it.
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  Speaker 3: And then the kids are going to be wearing Meta
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  Speaker 3: glasses and the First Lady has curated a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: artifacts from America and they'll be learning with the Queen
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  Speaker 3: and the First Lady about American history and America through
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  Speaker 3: with these American artifacts. So she's very focused. That's all
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  Speaker 3: part of her Fostering the Future Together initiative. She's focused
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  Speaker 3: and she's doing great.
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  Speaker 2: That's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Well, do me a baby please. I know she did
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  Speaker 1: enjoy her time here about two months ago. Please give
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  Speaker 1: her my best and tell her I think Jimmy Kimmel
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  Speaker 1: should be fired. And thank god ever your buddies, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and you Mark Beckman, you're awesome.
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  Speaker 2: You're not good, You're great. Thank you for this appearance.
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  Speaker 2: It was fantastic, very beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Sid. We appreciate you. I'll definitely pass your message on
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  Speaker 3: to the First Lady today.
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  Speaker 1: Look who's talking beautiful with those long beautiful. Hey, you've
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  Speaker 1: got there, you got a nice stand. You'll a great
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  Speaker 1: Mark Beckman, great job here today. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: There he is the voice and even the face on
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  Speaker 1: television from Milania. He's a terrific guy. Our friend, Mark Beckman.
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