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  Speaker 1: Administration officials are ramping up their criticism of judges who
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  Speaker 1: rule against the president. Take a look at this exchange
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  Speaker 1: yesterday on Fox Business.
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  Speaker 2: These are rogue judges that are basically I was appointed
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  Speaker 2: by Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: That's a rogue judge.
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  Speaker 2: It was one appointed by career bureaucrat over at USTR.
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  Speaker 2: But more importantly, the person who wrote the decision, Rostani
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  Speaker 2: was appointed by Reagan. Free Trader. She's the one who
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  Speaker 2: took the league trying to stop the Section two thirty
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  Speaker 2: two chaffs and got overruled in the appeals courts.
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  Speaker 4: I mean rogue judges. Judge appointed by Ronald Wilson Reagan
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  Speaker 4: and a judge appointed by Donald J.
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  Speaker 5: Trumph. And time and time again we hear the people
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  Speaker 5: inside the administration acting shocked.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, this is a judicial coup, this is a rogue No. No,
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  Speaker 4: it's the constitution of the United States law. We are
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  Speaker 4: a constitutional republic. And if you don't like what they did,
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  Speaker 4: then you appeal it to the United States Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 1: So that came moments before President Trump's tariffs were reinstated.
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  Speaker 1: It's one example of how the Trump administration appears to
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  Speaker 1: be trying to undermine confidence in the judiciary. After that
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  Speaker 1: three judge panel ruled against the presidents sweeping tariffs Wednesday evening,
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy chief of Staff, posted
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  Speaker 1: on social media, calling the decision a judicial coup.
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  Speaker 5: It's just so inflammatory and so wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And then yesterday he wrote, quote, we are living under
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  Speaker 1: a judicial tyranny.
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  Speaker 4: That is also again, there is a reason why threats
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  Speaker 4: against federal judges of skyrocketing, and speaking of threats that
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  Speaker 4: sort of language does exactly that.
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  Speaker 1: Miller, along with his post, put up photos of the
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  Speaker 1: three Trade Court judges. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt
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  Speaker 1: also addressed the ruling.
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  Speaker 6: Yesterday, three judges of the US Court of International Trade
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  Speaker 6: disagreed and brazenly abused their judicial power to usurp the
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  Speaker 6: authority of President Trump to stop him from carrying out
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  Speaker 6: the mandate that the American people gave him. These judges
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  Speaker 6: failed to acknowledge that the President of the United States
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  Speaker 6: has core foreign affairs powers, an authority given to him
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  Speaker 6: by Congress to protect the United States economy and national security.
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  Speaker 6: The courts should have no role here. There is a
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  Speaker 6: troubling and dangerous trend of unelected judges inserting themselves into
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  Speaker 6: the presidential decision making process. America cannot function if President
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  Speaker 6: Trump or any other president for that matter, has their
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  Speaker 6: sensitive diplomatic or trade negotiations railroaded by activist judges.
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  Speaker 3: And the trumpdministration is far from the first to have
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  Speaker 3: frustrations with the court's federal courts. We know that whether
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  Speaker 3: it's Bush or Obama or Biden, it's a bipartisan endeavor. However,
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  Speaker 3: this administration, the Trump administration, our first time to sort
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  Speaker 3: of vilify the judiciary in this way, to put out names, photographs,
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  Speaker 3: accuse them of being part of the deep state, as
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  Speaker 3: we talked about yesterday when this news was breaking, suggesting
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  Speaker 3: that it was a judicial coup, that this was something
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  Speaker 3: an effort to thwart not just the will of the
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  Speaker 3: presidency but the people, and talking about it sort of
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  Speaker 3: incendiary terms that I know worries quite a few folks.
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  Speaker 7: I think the theme of the last two stories that
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  Speaker 7: we've been talking about are welcome to democracy, Welcome to
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  Speaker 7: our system. It's not a judicial coup. Our system, for
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  Speaker 7: as long as these short memoried people may or may
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  Speaker 7: not remember, has been a three branch system of government
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  Speaker 7: in which other branches have a say, and when you
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  Speaker 7: go back to the Elon Musk story, it's the same story.
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  Speaker 7: He was. He didn't just leave. He's not He's not
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  Speaker 7: just slipping out of Washington. He was chased out of
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  Speaker 7: Washington by democracy, by people saying no, by people protesting
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  Speaker 7: so much around his cars and dealerships that he lost
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  Speaker 7: billions and billions of dollars, by people raising their voices,
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  Speaker 7: by people filing lawsuits. And by the way, you know,
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  Speaker 7: Donald Trump was saying, I think he wrote he will
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  Speaker 7: always be with us. That's something that rev might say
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  Speaker 7: in a eulogy for someone. So so he will always
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  Speaker 7: be with us, I mean, you know, And I just
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  Speaker 7: want to say, we can tell the Elons story and
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  Speaker 7: this kind of disciplining by democracy as a story of
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  Speaker 7: someone leaving. But there is pain in the wake of
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  Speaker 7: these tariffs, and there's pain in the wake of what
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  Speaker 7: Elon did. He talked about bringing the wood chipper to usaid.
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  Speaker 7: Brooke Nichols, Boston University professor of mathematician, figured out what
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  Speaker 7: is the effect of this A tracker three hundred thousand deaths,
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  Speaker 7: according to a Boston University professor, because of the AID
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  Speaker 7: cuts so far, two hundred thousand of them children. Okay,
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  Speaker 7: Vietnam War, y'all remember that sixty thousand US service members died.
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  Speaker 7: This is five times more deaths according to the Boston
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  Speaker 7: University study because of aid cuts since January of this year.
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  Speaker 7: So Elon Musk is leaving, but he's also leaving a legacy.
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  Speaker 7: But I think it's really important that people remember the
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  Speaker 7: Court's work. Joe and I have been having a ten
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  Speaker 7: year conversation about our institution standing up or not. The
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  Speaker 7: courts work. Still not perfectly, there's problems, but courts work,
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  Speaker 7: lawsuits work, and pressure works, and people raising their voice works.
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  Speaker 7: And it's not just that Washington always wins. I think
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  Speaker 7: the people always win.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well it is you look and see and again
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  Speaker 4: talk about US a idea. I'm hoping that Republicans who
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  Speaker 4: supported George W. Bush with Pep Fharr, who supported evangelical
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  Speaker 4: institutions UH and and and and and Catholic institutions and
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  Speaker 4: other institutions to to help the poorest among not only
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  Speaker 4: US but across the world, will will put the funding
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  Speaker 4: back in UH for for these these desperately needed services.
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  Speaker 4: I also also, again Elon Musk obviously going back to
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  Speaker 4: take to take care of of Tesla because he did,
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  Speaker 4: face of course, such backlash, some of it way overboard.
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  Speaker 4: The violence uh uh and vandalism uh at Tesla dealerships
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  Speaker 4: just absolutely shameful. That only hurts the cause. David Drucker,
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  Speaker 4: though I want to I want to talk though about
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  Speaker 4: the administration attack judges. They have to know this. First
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  Speaker 4: of all. All you do is you actually get other
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  Speaker 4: federal judges angry that the administration doesn't respect the separation
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  Speaker 4: of powers and Article three powers. But also closer to
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  Speaker 4: home for this White House is very dangerous, but closer
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  Speaker 4: to home politically. Whenever they start talking this way, you
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  Speaker 4: have Republican senators, MAGA senators like Josh Holly, like John.
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  Speaker 5: Kennedy from Louisiana. You've got shot Grass. So you've got
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  Speaker 5: other Republican senators going whoa whoa, whoa, Hey, older horses
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  Speaker 5: going to win. If you don't like a judge's ruling,
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  Speaker 5: that's too bad, you can appeal it, and then you
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  Speaker 5: have to respect the outcome of it. Talk about how
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  Speaker 5: these these attacks on federal judges, the talk of judicial
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  Speaker 5: kup who's that doesn't even play with most Republicans on
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  Speaker 5: Capitol Hill.
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  Speaker 8: Well, they're going to be here a lot longer than
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  Speaker 8: any president, and so I think they tend to take
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  Speaker 8: the judiciary a little bit more seriously. But look, we
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  Speaker 8: have a very active as president, and since the supreme branch,
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  Speaker 8: the legislative branch, is choosing to do nothing, it's understandable
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  Speaker 8: that you're going to have the only other branch of government,
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  Speaker 8: the judiciary, pushback. I mean, that's why the administration finds
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  Speaker 8: itself in this boat. If they were working with Congress
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  Speaker 8: to legislate on a lot of the different things they
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  Speaker 8: want to do, whether you like them or not, the
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  Speaker 8: dismantling of USAID for instance, if they had gone to
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  Speaker 8: Congress taken this statutory program and changed the law, there'd
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  Speaker 8: be no lawsuits. But instead they come in with a sledgehammer.
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  Speaker 8: They challenge and obfuscate the law. Congress does nothing, and
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  Speaker 8: so the courts are the only recourse and the only
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  Speaker 8: ones willing to do anything about this. We have seen this,
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  Speaker 8: as Jonathan mentioned, from presidents on the right and presidents
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  Speaker 8: on the left. They all think they're emperors. They don't
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  Speaker 8: like judges thwarting their agenda. But in this case, this
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  Speaker 8: president is going to be thwart at time and again
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  Speaker 8: because he's stretching the bounds of executive power. And on
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  Speaker 8: Capitol Hill they do cringe. Republicans don't like it because
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  Speaker 8: they rely on the courts when they're in the minority,
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  Speaker 8: and Republicans were recently in the minority and they know
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  Speaker 8: they'll be in the minority again and vice versa with
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  Speaker 8: the Democrats. But this is standard Washington speak. And what
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  Speaker 8: this president knows how to do is not finesse but bully.
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  Speaker 8: It's the way he operates. What will be fun Joe
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  Speaker 8: is eventually when this term ends and they'll be a
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  Speaker 8: Democratic president, whether in the next term or the term
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  Speaker 8: after that. And a lot of Trump administration officials that
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  Speaker 8: are still active in politics will be going to court
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  Speaker 8: and using these same courts to block democratic presidents from
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  Speaker 8: doing things they don't White