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Diego Morales' Office Responds · Tony Katz | Popcorn Moment

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  Speaker 1: The Popcorn Moments, brought to you by Boer Remodeling. Tony
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  Speaker 1: Katz ninety three WIBC, Good morning. I should really do
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  Speaker 1: it with more fanfare, the popcorn moment.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
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  Speaker 1: It's a story you need to hear to believe, and
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  Speaker 1: then grab your popcorn because there is more. Okay, you
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  Speaker 1: should you should sit down for this. You should hear this,
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  Speaker 1: and then you should tell me what the heck this is.
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  Speaker 1: We sent a question, hey, Diego Morales, he is the
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State, and we said we would like to
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  Speaker 1: do an interview.
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  Speaker 2: Now we should be clear. I am very very.
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  Speaker 1: Focused about Diego Morales for well over a year.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime we bring him up, I've been playing this.
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  Speaker 1: The Secretary of State, Diego Morales hired his brother in law.
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  Speaker 2: Comedian. In the dictionary, you'll find sure me no, the
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  Speaker 2: definition of the word idiot, which you are. God, Karen,
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  Speaker 2: you are so stupid. What are your qualifications?
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  Speaker 1: Take his qualifications and then shove them somewhere. Who hires
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  Speaker 1: their brother in law that is the most idiot they've
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  Speaker 1: ever heard of. My line is, it's just absolutely nutty.
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  Speaker 2: It's smacks of corruption.
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  Speaker 1: It smacks of everything we wouldn't want the Republican Party doing,
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  Speaker 1: and the idea that when asked about it who I
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  Speaker 1: think it was Ed Delaney who was asking him about it,
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  Speaker 1: Democrat from Indianapolis. The answer from Diego Morales was we
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  Speaker 1: hire the best of the best of the best.
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  Speaker 2: There's not an answer.
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  Speaker 1: It was never an answer, and his has to know
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  Speaker 1: that that's not an answer, and that's very embarrassing. I
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  Speaker 1: feel the same way about Joe hogg seats staff as
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  Speaker 1: I do about Diego Morales's staff.
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  Speaker 2: At some moments, you realize this is not a good
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  Speaker 2: place to be, don't you. Don't you? Well?
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  Speaker 1: This then, of course became a subject of this trip
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  Speaker 1: to India, this trip here and there?
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  Speaker 2: And who's paying for these trips?
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  Speaker 1: Are the taxpayers paying for the Secretary of State of
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  Speaker 1: Indiana to go visit these countries? And is he having
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  Speaker 1: official visits with them? I mean, who is he to
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  Speaker 1: have official visits? Is this something that the Secretary of
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  Speaker 1: State does or is he trying to make himself look
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  Speaker 1: like more than he is?
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  Speaker 2: And is this being paid for by the taxpayer?
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  Speaker 1: That is such a legitimate question that to not answer
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  Speaker 1: the question is laughable. To not answer the question for
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  Speaker 1: taxpayers of who's paying for this trip is ridiculous, It
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  Speaker 1: is embarrassing, is shameful. It's shameful for Diego Morales, the
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State. It's shameful for his staff that knows
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  Speaker 1: that it is such a baseline, basic question, a basic
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  Speaker 1: concept who paid for the trip? To not answer it,
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  Speaker 1: while it certainly does not prove in a court of
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  Speaker 1: law guilt, it does in the court of a public
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  Speaker 1: opinion prove guilt absolutely. If you were to ask people,
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  Speaker 1: they would think that Diego Morales is up to shady
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  Speaker 1: stuff without proof.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, because he never.
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  Speaker 1: Answered the question, the question, which is so basic and
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  Speaker 1: so simple for a Republican, or for a Democrat, conservative
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  Speaker 1: or a liberal, a moderate or an independent, for any Hoosier,
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  Speaker 1: this is a baseline question.
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  Speaker 2: To not answer it. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Not only does it make you look in the court
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  Speaker 1: of public opinion like a guilty person, like you did
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  Speaker 1: something improper, it's a way of explaining to people how
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  Speaker 1: much you hate them, how much you disregard them, how
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  Speaker 1: above them you think you are. And that is very obvious,
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  Speaker 1: I believe from the actions of Diego Morales and somehow
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  Speaker 1: his staff stays. This brings us to something that took
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  Speaker 1: place the other day in the reporter here with the
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  Speaker 1: with the video. This happened Diego Morales speaking to the
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  Speaker 1: Motor Vehicle Advisory Board.
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  Speaker 3: You know, one of the things that we're going to
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  Speaker 3: try to do right now is to share with you
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  Speaker 3: the hard work that the Morales administration has been doing
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  Speaker 3: since I took office, because the fake news will never
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  Speaker 3: share that, the fake WIBC, the fake in the Star,
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  Speaker 3: they will never So.
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  Speaker 1: First, since when does the Secretary of State refer to
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  Speaker 1: it as their administration, the Morales administration?
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  Speaker 2: That's very odd.
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  Speaker 1: And when he is on these nation these country visits,
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  Speaker 1: did he represent himself as the Morales administration? Is there
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  Speaker 1: an issue there? I don't know what he did. Heck,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know who paid for the trip, but very odd. Again, egomaniacal. Again,
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  Speaker 1: Look how more important I am than you? Look how
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  Speaker 1: special I am. What Diego Morales is trying to do
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  Speaker 1: is trying to trump himself. He's trying to be Trump.
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  Speaker 1: And then when talking about IBC, he's trying to engage
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  Speaker 1: in Trumps. And again the problem is it doesn't work
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  Speaker 1: because Diego Morales is not Donald Trump and he never
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  Speaker 1: will be. He doesn't come close. Fake news is when
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  Speaker 1: they lie about you. It is not fake news when
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  Speaker 1: they ask who paid for the trip. But Diego Morales
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  Speaker 1: knows this and his team knows this, except his team
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want to admit to it, which brings us to
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  Speaker 1: Lindsay Eaton, the comms director for the Indiana Secretary of State,
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  Speaker 1: whom we emailed.
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  Speaker 2: And we said, hey.
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  Speaker 1: We would like to interview Secretary of State Digga Morales
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  Speaker 1: regarding his statement about WIBC, And we sent the link
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  Speaker 1: that out of the video I just shared with you.
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  Speaker 1: Please let me know how we can coordinate. It came
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  Speaker 1: from producer Carl. The response was, Hi Carl, this is
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  Speaker 1: from Lindsay Eaton, the comms director. Hi Carl, we respectfully
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  Speaker 1: decline your interview request on this topic. Your station and
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  Speaker 1: those who work there have previously chosen the platform unfounded
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  Speaker 1: and frankly ridiculous allegations about Secretary Morales and actual or
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  Speaker 1: imagined associates.
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  Speaker 2: Now this has to do with tickets to a.
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  Speaker 1: Basketball game, and Morales was there and the Lieutenant Governor
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  Speaker 1: Michael Beck was with What was there and where did
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  Speaker 1: those tickets come from and this guy in his history
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  Speaker 1: and his issues. I haven't done that story. Rob and
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  Speaker 1: and Casey have done that story. I have not done
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  Speaker 1: that story. So because of that, they're declining an interview,
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  Speaker 1: although they call the allegations unfounded and ridiculous, but they
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  Speaker 1: don't state why.
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  Speaker 2: Lindsay Eaton does not state Whine in the email.
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  Speaker 1: She then responds continues with quote, with a redaction and
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  Speaker 1: apology given after spreading false and inaccurate information on your
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  Speaker 1: station about one of those associates. Given the manner of
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  Speaker 1: that coverage, we will not participate in interviews with your outlet.
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  Speaker 2: At this time.
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  Speaker 1: Now I think she meant without a redaction and an apology. However,
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  Speaker 1: she has not indicated what requires redaction or what requires apology.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know what she is setting requires redaction and apology.
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  Speaker 1: What I can tell you is that she is taught
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  Speaker 1: talking about a show and not the station.
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  Speaker 2: That seems obvious at this point. It's obvious she's.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about Kendall in Casey, She's not talking about me,
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  Speaker 1: and she's not talking about the WIBC newsroom.
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  Speaker 2: She continues.
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  Speaker 1: By common definition, fake news is the presentation of false,
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  Speaker 1: uninformed incomplete or selective information as complete, objective news reporting
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  Speaker 1: or journalism. In our opinion, time and again, time and
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  Speaker 1: time again, your outlet's news reporting consists of unsubstantiated, secondhand
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  Speaker 1: information unbolstered by reasonable due diligence, writes Lindsay Eton, Secretary
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  Speaker 1: Communications Director for Secretary of State Morales. She continues, quote
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  Speaker 1: listeners are likely to be misled by negligent, obtained, uninformed,
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  Speaker 1: or even malinformed information and subjective opinion presented as complete
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  Speaker 1: and factual news. We do not intend to enable or
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  Speaker 1: collaborate in such practices. Now, a couple things here. First,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the second half of that email was
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  Speaker 1: written by AI.
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  Speaker 2: That's my take. Doesn't seem to be a way people talk.
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  Speaker 1: Secondly, I would remind Lindsay Eaton, who once worked at
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  Speaker 1: Fox fifty nine, that the news department of WIBC is
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  Speaker 1: different than the commentary done in WIBC, and she is
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  Speaker 1: engaging right now in a disparagement of the newsroom, which
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  Speaker 1: I think that defamation is pretty awful. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it reaches the point of actionable against the State
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  Speaker 1: of Indiana, but I'm not a lawyer. The newsroom has
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  Speaker 1: not engaged at all in.
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  Speaker 2: Anything like this.
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  Speaker 1: And I have said many times that what I do
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  Speaker 1: here is indeed commentary, not journalism that is done by
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  Speaker 1: the newsroom. It is a different function. But you know that, Lindsay,
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  Speaker 1: you know it, and we all know it. You also
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  Speaker 1: have not provided what is indeed false. You have not
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  Speaker 1: shared that you have made an allegation with no backup none.
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  Speaker 1: Can I ask what credibility you think you have in
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  Speaker 1: this conversation, Lindsey, I gotta get to commercial here, But
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  Speaker 1: allow me.
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  Speaker 2: We asked a legitimate question.
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  Speaker 1: Diego Morales engaged in what is clearly false, and me
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  Speaker 1: asking the question is not the problem. Your response is.
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  Speaker 1: And if the Secretary of State's office wants to start
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  Speaker 1: a fight with me, they can, But look at yourselves,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing