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Trump's DC destruction is an 'ABOMINATION' · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: President Trump, no surprise taking this to the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 1: Is this something you expect them to take up? And
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  Speaker 1: what would you expect them to think of something like this,
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  Speaker 1: because it seems kind of cut and dry.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, let's start with your first question. Is
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  Speaker 2: this something that I expect the court to take up?
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  Speaker 2: Possibly not necessarily, but very well, possibly in part because
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  Speaker 2: this is a court that oftentimes will take up the
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  Speaker 2: president's quote unquote.
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  Speaker 3: Emergency requests for its intervention.
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  Speaker 2: And here what he's asking for, what he will be
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  Speaker 2: asking for is a stay of an injunction by a
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  Speaker 2: lower court that prohibits them from doing any further above
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  Speaker 2: ground construction while this litigation continues. And so in order
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  Speaker 2: to be able to resume the construction at least above ground,
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  Speaker 2: this president needs that permission of this Supreme Court, and
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  Speaker 2: knowing that they may be hard pressed to turn down
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to clarify what they mean.
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  Speaker 3: On the other hand, will this necessarily go his way?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not. I don't think so. And that's because the
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  Speaker 3: President took it.
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  Speaker 2: Upon himself unilaterally, as you were just reviewing, to not
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  Speaker 2: only demolish the East Room, but to begin the construction
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  Speaker 2: of a ballroom, and this Court says in a one
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  Speaker 2: hundred page opinion that, for a variety of reasons across
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  Speaker 2: statutory and constitutional authorities, that just wasn't his decision to make.
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  Speaker 2: Irrespective of what dollars he's using, irrespective of the rationale
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  Speaker 2: for building it, it was never his.
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  Speaker 3: Decision to make. This is sort of a.
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  Speaker 2: Fundamental clash of the branches of government, and this is
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  Speaker 2: a Supreme Court that has been very friendly to this
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  Speaker 2: president's interpretation of the sort of an elastic presidential power.
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  Speaker 2: The question is at some point that rubber Band snaps
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  Speaker 2: this might be that opportunity in Gene Lisa really quickly.
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  Speaker 1: The East Room is gone, The whole side of the
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  Speaker 1: White House is gone. So even if the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: comes out and says that the President can't do this,
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  Speaker 1: then what because there doesn't seem to be a way
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  Speaker 1: to bring it all back.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: And more importantly, it doesn't necessarily mean that the White
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  Speaker 2: House has to put any money toward or that there's
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  Speaker 2: any relief for the people who have brought this case
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  Speaker 2: in the first place. Now, let's remember the plaintiffs in
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  Speaker 2: this case are a national historic organization that basically are
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  Speaker 2: seeking to vindicate the interests that all of us have
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  Speaker 2: in the preservation of the historic buildings. So it's not
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  Speaker 2: clear what the relief for them would be other than
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  Speaker 2: pausing and stopping any future construction. But you're right, there
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  Speaker 2: is a very obvious hole in the ground in Washington,
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  Speaker 2: d C. With cranes that are paused mid air, visible
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  Speaker 2: from all quarters of town. If the President is not
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  Speaker 2: allowed to go forward, there's going to be a big
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  Speaker 2: question of, well, what do we do about that huge
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  Speaker 2: construction site in the middle of the White House grounds.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, let's move over to another legal case
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  Speaker 1: that the President and his team are losing. This is
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  Speaker 1: the David Herdin case. You guys, we have all covered this,
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  Speaker 1: so viewers, you know exactly what I'm talking about. The
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  Speaker 1: President still blaming Bandos even though David Hearn has been
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  Speaker 1: clear that he didn't do anything and so has judged
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  Speaker 1: Jeanine Pirot. And and you know, one of the things,
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  Speaker 1: Susan that has stuck with me over this entire time is,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what President Trump says, no matter what the
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  Speaker 1: he the Interior Secretary says in front of the camera
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  Speaker 1: when they go into court, there are things they have
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  Speaker 1: to do, which is tell the truth. And David Hearn
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  Speaker 1: was on CNN and he said this to Kaitlyn Conas
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  Speaker 1: listened to this. Let's talk on the other side.
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  Speaker 4: This can happen to anybody. If it can happen to me,
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  Speaker 4: it could happen to anybody. Nobody's immune to this kind
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  Speaker 4: of government lawlessness essentially. And it's it's really the kind
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  Speaker 4: of thing that you think, you know, a country ruled
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  Speaker 4: by a dictator. That's that's where you see that kind
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  Speaker 4: of thing. And this isn't. This is not the Land
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  Speaker 4: of the Free and the home of the brave that
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 1: This is a country that you know as well? Is
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  Speaker 1: that another one? Maybe not in the United States?
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  Speaker 5: Citizen.
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  Speaker 6: Look, you know, imagine being out on your bike on
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  Speaker 6: a summer afternoon and stopping by the National Mall looking
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  Speaker 6: at you know what Donald Trump has already sort of
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  Speaker 6: wrought the disruption. It's the cranes are all over.
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  Speaker 3: The city, the digging, the you.
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  Speaker 6: Know, the visible signs of a man who is determined
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  Speaker 6: to put his personal stamp writing it, you know, physically
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  Speaker 6: across our capital. And then all of a sudden you're
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  Speaker 6: being charged with a felony because not just the President, but.
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  Speaker 3: So many of those around him believe that.
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  Speaker 6: His lives are more important than you know, the actual truth.
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  Speaker 6: It's a painful moment in the country, and I think
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  Speaker 6: that's why these stories are resonating for so many people.
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  Speaker 3: Eugene. I mean, it all feels like a profound challenge
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  Speaker 3: to what.
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  Speaker 6: We think of as the United States, and of course
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  Speaker 6: to do so while polluting the actual national mall that's
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  Speaker 6: here to commemorate, a memorialize and pay tribute to those
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  Speaker 6: very values that are maving you know. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 6: just you know, tragedy or bad farce. And I think
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  Speaker 6: that's the through line here in these court opinions again
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  Speaker 6: and again over the last two years.
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  Speaker 3: Today's is no exception in that sense.
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  Speaker 6: Courts are screaming out to us and saying, these are
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  Speaker 6: profoundly un American decisions, and you know, we have unfortunately
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  Speaker 6: ample evidence that they're For everyone who says, Okay, this
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  Speaker 6: is too far for me to go, apparently including even
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  Speaker 6: Janine Piro, the former Fox TV host who's the US
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  Speaker 6: attorney here in DC, there are those who are willing
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  Speaker 6: to follow, and that includes Trump's acting Attorney General, who
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  Speaker 6: now seems on the brink of confirmation his personal lawyer
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  Speaker 6: turned into the Attorney general, who can bring more cases
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  Speaker 6: like this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid, missus, Chairman, I'm going to take a page
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  Speaker 1: out of your book and ask you to put a
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  Speaker 1: little bow on this for us, because both of these
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  Speaker 1: cases are similar, and that there are a lot of resources,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time, a lot of money in this
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  Speaker 1: federal government that goes to making us all live in
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's realities.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that last part is it. He is forcing us
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  Speaker 7: to live in his reality. As a native Washingtonian, to
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  Speaker 7: see what this man has done to this city is
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  Speaker 7: an abomination.
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  Speaker 3: It is abhorrent.
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  Speaker 7: Even in the worst during the worst days of the
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  Speaker 7: riots and the protests, where people were, you know, spraying,
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  Speaker 7: painting here and there, you didn't see anything like that
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  Speaker 7: that touched on the monuments, if you will of the nation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: you may have, you know, a business or shop owner
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  Speaker 7: may have to deal with vandals, et cetera.
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  Speaker 5: But there was even even amongst those who are angry
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  Speaker 5: at the administration, angry at the country, if.
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  Speaker 7: You will, for the war in Vietnam, or the lack
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  Speaker 7: of civil rights, or the dehumanization of women and the
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  Speaker 7: subjugation of their rights. They didn't take it out on
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  Speaker 7: the national monuments. And that's what Donald Trump is doing.
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  Speaker 7: His impromater is I'm going.
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  Speaker 5: To turn this into me uh and there's nothing you
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  Speaker 5: can do about it. And to the last point before
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  Speaker 5: moving on to this one about you know this this
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  Speaker 5: reflecting pool, the situation with the East Wing.
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  Speaker 3: What's the court going to do. The Court's going to
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  Speaker 3: give him what he wants.
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  Speaker 5: They'll find a way, they'll make the case that was
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  Speaker 5: made here. Well, you've already torn the building down and
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  Speaker 5: you're not going to rebuild the oldest East Wing. And
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  Speaker 5: you know, and you know the administration doesn't have those
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  Speaker 5: parameters to do that, so future administration should know they can't.
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  Speaker 5: But what are you going to do? So that's how
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  Speaker 5: Donald Trump acts. He acts, and then everybody else has
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  Speaker 5: to figure out how to undo it, and they realize
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  Speaker 5: they can't. He wins, and somehow somewhere along the way,
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  Speaker 5: we as a nation have got to put a stop
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  Speaker 5: to this because the Congress won't. This Congress will not,
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  Speaker 5: which is what the elections are ultimately going to be about,
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  Speaker 5: whether or not there is the American people putting a
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  Speaker 5: check back into the balance of things by redesigning, if
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  Speaker 5: you will, what the Congress looks like, since Trump wants
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  Speaker 5: to redesign everything else, everyone's home improvement.
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  Speaker 1: Addition, here in Washington, DC, different journeys, though, Susan, when
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  Speaker 1: you're thinking about the politics here, you have Americans all
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  Speaker 1: over the country. We've had Alex Tabitt, one of our colleagues,
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  Speaker 1: many of the reporters going around talking to voters, people
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  Speaker 1: who vote for Donald Trump three times, crying to him
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  Speaker 1: and saying that they can't afford to breathe. As one
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  Speaker 1: woman put it, you have this war theron where we
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  Speaker 1: are spending billions of dollars all the time in a
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  Speaker 1: war that the American people don't want, don't understand, and
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  Speaker 1: the president hasn't really spent any time doing that for them.
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  Speaker 1: And yet the president is walking around taking glue sticks
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  Speaker 1: and gluing gold applicates in the Oval Office, spending all
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  Speaker 1: this brain space, Maggie Haberman says, seventy percent she estimates
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  Speaker 1: of the president's brain space is to these renovations. When
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  Speaker 1: you have a president so completely out of touch with
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  Speaker 1: and completely doesn't even seem bothered by the things that
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  Speaker 1: are happening to the American people, what he is getting,
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  Speaker 1: what he wants. Where does that leave us?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm glad you brought that up, Eugene. I
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  Speaker 3: think that.
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  Speaker 6: Image of Trump with the glue gun and the gold
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  Speaker 6: encrusted wood putting that up in the Oval office is
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  Speaker 6: probably the enduring symbol that I took out of the
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  Speaker 6: excellent book that Maggie and John than Swan wrote, because
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  Speaker 6: it shows a president who is essentially not only indifferent
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  Speaker 6: to what voters think, but basically it's the profaning of
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  Speaker 6: the capital and the Executive Mansion are the physical architectural
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  Speaker 6: manifestations of our Congress. They're these beautiful, sort of spare, elegant,
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  Speaker 6: restrained neoclassical designs meant to show in physical form what
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  Speaker 6: our constitution is, which is again very streamlined, simple balanced. Right,
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  Speaker 6: you have proportions, you have power here vested in an
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  Speaker 6: executive but also then checked in a legislative branch, and
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  Speaker 6: you know, you encrust it with gold, and all of
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  Speaker 6: a sudden you've broken something more than just how the
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  Speaker 6: building looks and.
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  Speaker 3: How tacky it is.
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  Speaker 6: And so for me, Donald Trump is all about, you know,
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  Speaker 6: sort of like you know, forget the metaphor. He's the
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  Speaker 6: metaphor made real. But in the election year, does does
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  Speaker 6: any of it matter? My view is that it's breaking
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  Speaker 6: through in a way that we haven't seen. That's part
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  Speaker 6: of the reason, obviously for Trump's plunge in his approval
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  Speaker 6: ratings is people are worried about things like the price
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  Speaker 6: of gas.
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  Speaker 3: But also I think it's pretty.
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  Speaker 6: Easy to make a connection between a president whose priorities
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  Speaker 6: are himself, the personal enrichment and the e goldification of
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  Speaker 6: his physical surroundings at the expense of what Americans care about.
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  Speaker 6: And you see it in those numbers. It's not Democrats already,
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  Speaker 6: We'resauran Donald Trump. The reason he's going down in the
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  Speaker 6: polls is because of independence, Republican leaning independence. Even some
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  Speaker 6: Republicans are softening right now. He is the worst ratings
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  Speaker 6: that he's had of his entire time in politics with
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  Speaker 6: Republican voters who don't identify as MAGA.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the warning sign
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  Speaker 6: For Republicans is that Trump's support is softening in his
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  Speaker 6: own party right now.