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  Speaker 1: How Speaker Paul Ryan has sent a letter to the
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  Speaker 1: Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, requesting that he denied
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  Speaker 1: any classified information to Hillary Clinton for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the twenties sixteen campaign. Let's find out more about Hillary Clinton,
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  Speaker 1: the email scandal and James Comey, the director of the FBI,
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  Speaker 1: testifying before Congress today. I want to bring it in
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  Speaker 1: the thesis national security reporter for Bloomberg News. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: joining us and the FISAI tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about what is at stake here in terms of the
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  Speaker 1: sort of reputation of the FBI and the Justice Department. Hi.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks yeah. Today, UH, Director James Komey was under an
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  Speaker 1: intense grilling from the Committee on Oversight Government Reform. He
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  Speaker 1: was answering a lot of questions about whether there was
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  Speaker 1: any kind of biased or political influence from Hillary Clinton
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  Speaker 1: the campaign on his decision not to bring about criminal
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  Speaker 1: charges over the use of private email while she was secretary,
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  Speaker 1: and UH call me reinforced his message from a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days ago when he said they would not bring
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  Speaker 1: about charges, repeating himself several times and saying that no
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  Speaker 1: matter the circumstances, he would have reached the same conclusion.
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  Speaker 1: He spoke about how they had question Clinton some of
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  Speaker 1: his agents on Saturday, UH and found that she didn't
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  Speaker 1: really have an intent to you know, break any laws,
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  Speaker 1: and so again saying why he came to that conclusion.
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  Speaker 1: Republican chairman of this committee, Jason Chavitz, said that he
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  Speaker 1: was mystified and confused, um and saying that there seems
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  Speaker 1: to be two standards for people who are safe, famous
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  Speaker 1: such as Hillary Clinton and an average, an average Joe.
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  Speaker 1: So again, they asked him, um, you know, was there
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  Speaker 1: any type of double standard? And if so, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: was he did he take any bribes? Was there any
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  Speaker 1: kind of influence? And he kept saying no, there was
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  Speaker 1: no bias, and he dismissed any kind of accusations or
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  Speaker 1: allegations that he was swayed in any kind of way. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he was certainly steadfast on that. You know. It was
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  Speaker 1: a long testimony, and it's it's it's the story once
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  Speaker 1: again is in everybody's eye. But along in answering many questions,
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  Speaker 1: did he say something along the lines of he he
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  Speaker 1: did not want to leave the impression that in similar
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  Speaker 1: cases there would not be consequences that others might have
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  Speaker 1: to face. Does that then give the critics some grounds
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  Speaker 1: for saying, well, hey, if other people might have consequences
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  Speaker 1: for this kind of action, why doesn't Hillary is it
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  Speaker 1: just because she's running for president and you guys don't
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  Speaker 1: want to upset the apple cart. That seems to be
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  Speaker 1: the sense, right, And you you heard that from some
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  Speaker 1: other public alotmakers saying that, you know, are you creating
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  Speaker 1: a precedent that you know, says Hillary Clinton becomes president,
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  Speaker 1: she might be allowed to do the same thing. Or
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  Speaker 1: if there's an average person who were under the same
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  Speaker 1: kind of circumstances, uh, you know, high classified information, but
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  Speaker 1: wasn't as high profile as as Hillary Clinton, that you're
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  Speaker 1: saying that you know, she might be allowed he or
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  Speaker 1: she might be allowed to get away with something like this.
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  Speaker 1: And he said again and that you know, being able
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  Speaker 1: to establish whether the person actually wanted to break the
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  Speaker 1: law was part of what helped determine whether they were
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  Speaker 1: going to bring about charges. And so that's what's making
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  Speaker 1: it um you know, sort of a intense, attense discussion
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  Speaker 1: intense time because there is a lot of discussion around
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you know, it is Hillary Clinton, and
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  Speaker 1: the timing of his announcement the other day, uh, two
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  Speaker 1: days ago, where he made the announcement and then shortly
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  Speaker 1: after that we had President Obama campaigning with her. Lu
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  Speaker 1: Clinton so again, so the you know, congressmen were asking,
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  Speaker 1: you know, did you plan that timing? They were suspicious
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  Speaker 1: of how the events unfolded, and again because of Hilly
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  Speaker 1: Clinton being the presumptive Democratic nominee NEPSA. So you, thank
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  Speaker 1: you so very much for joining us on such a
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  Speaker 1: busy afternoon for you and your team in Washington. She's
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  Speaker 1: national security reporter fort Bloomberg and News. Now we turned
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  Speaker 1: to Jennifer Jacobs, she's senior national political reporter for Bloomberg News,
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  Speaker 1: also joining us from Washington today, and Jennifer, certainly the
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  Speaker 1: BA may have declined to file any kind of charges
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  Speaker 1: again Hillary Clinton, but we can be pretty sure that Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: led by Donald Trump will be filing all kinds of charges. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: in their in their remarks over this. What are you
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  Speaker 1: hearing so far? Yes, um, I know that that was
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  Speaker 1: a topic of of Donald Trump's meeting with some of
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  Speaker 1: the members of Congress this morning, and in fact, one
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  Speaker 1: member of Congress said he left that meeting saying that
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  Speaker 1: he's more confident in than ever that Republicans can defeat
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  Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton. Now, so it's definitely a point of confidence
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  Speaker 1: for Republicans and something that they planned to use on
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  Speaker 1: the campaign trail. Can you bring us up to date
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  Speaker 1: on the vice presidential candidates for Donald Trump as the
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  Speaker 1: Republican candidate for president? Yes, So, who knows who he's
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  Speaker 1: going to choose? Um My sources familiar with the search
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  Speaker 1: have told me he's narrowed it down to five people
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  Speaker 1: that he intends to make up his mind, hopefully by
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  Speaker 1: the end of next week, but definitely before the convention.
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  Speaker 1: But he truly does not know yet who's he's going
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  Speaker 1: to pick. The vetting process continues, but in the meantime
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  Speaker 1: he seems to be having a lot of fun instead
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  Speaker 1: of sneaking around and doing covert meetings with people. He's
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  Speaker 1: been very public about it. He had Sarah Palin tag
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  Speaker 1: along with him in Colorado Friday to a big fundraiser.
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  Speaker 1: He played golf on Saturday with Mike Pence, the governor
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  Speaker 1: of Indiana. On fourth of July, he had lunch in
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey with Joni Ernst, the senator from Iowa. Um
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  Speaker 1: in North Carolina, a big swing state. He had Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: Senator Bob Corker on stage with him and flying with him.
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  Speaker 1: Then last night in Ohio, it was another audition at
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  Speaker 1: this time for new Grich the former speaker, and then
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  Speaker 1: he caught up with just Jeff Sessions in DC today.
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  Speaker 1: So he keeps tweeting about these meetings and talking about
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  Speaker 1: it with reporters. So he's just building the intrigue. Who
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  Speaker 1: knows whether he will pick any of these people are
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  Speaker 1: also it will be someone you know whose name hasn't
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  Speaker 1: even surfaced yet. But in the meantime, he's really stoking
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  Speaker 1: the excitement over who he's going to pick. He certainly
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  Speaker 1: is um, is there any So what's what's the deadline?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what how late can wait to tell us? Well,
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  Speaker 1: he needs to for sure at the convention, and we're
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  Speaker 1: eleven days out from the convention. But I'm told that
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  Speaker 1: he will make up his mind next week. He has
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  Speaker 1: not decided where he will announce, but he does want
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  Speaker 1: to make a big announcement at the end of the week. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, in the meantime, he really seems to
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  Speaker 1: be enjoying himself, and it seems like it's almost like
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  Speaker 1: he's running promotions for a big primetime TV show. By
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  Speaker 1: dropping all these hints, he's testing to see if these
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  Speaker 1: prospects can really rile up a crowd and how how
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  Speaker 1: the geop bass reacts to them. But also, even if
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't pick obviously won't pick most of these people,
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  Speaker 1: he's showcasing that he has the ability to have elected officials,
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  Speaker 1: establishment Republicans respected people willing to stand up with him.
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  Speaker 1: Joni Earns, for example. You know, she has said that
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  Speaker 1: she's not being officially vetted, so it sounds like she's
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  Speaker 1: crossed off our speculation list. But just by associating with her,
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  Speaker 1: she was the first female combat veteran elected to the U. S. Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Just by having her to lunch and be in public
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  Speaker 1: about that. And perhaps Donald Trump helps himself with female
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  Speaker 1: voters and with military members that sort of thing. So
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  Speaker 1: just by associating with these people, he's trying to promote
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  Speaker 1: himself in the campaign. Jennifer, can we just talk about
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  Speaker 1: money for a second, because Donald Trump what he raised
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  Speaker 1: more than twenty six million dollars through online and male
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  Speaker 1: solicitations in June, plus another twenty five million at Republican
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  Speaker 1: National Committee events. But that's less than Hillary Clinton. She's
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  Speaker 1: raised sixty eight and a half million during the same
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  Speaker 1: time period. Are we just going to see increasing amounts
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  Speaker 1: of fundraising and as the GOP fundraising machine working. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so Donald Trump is really really proud of that fifty
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  Speaker 1: one million number that was for both the campaign and
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  Speaker 1: for the Goop parties, even though you're right it was
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  Speaker 1: much less than Hillary Clinton. But he pointed out he
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  Speaker 1: was ramping up, he was just becoming the presumptive nominee.
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  Speaker 1: He was just getting his fundraising operation going. And for
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  Speaker 1: him to raise that much money in such a short
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  Speaker 1: amount of time, they really started trying new tactics, doing emails,
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  Speaker 1: these mass emails to Americans asking for small donations. He
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  Speaker 1: got his sons involved. Um people really respond to his children,
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  Speaker 1: to Ivanka, to Eric, to Don Jr. And so he
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  Speaker 1: was having his son's send email solicious solicitations. He's been
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  Speaker 1: advertising on Facebook, so he's he's just starting to branch out.
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  Speaker 1: And he told members of Congress this morning in their
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  Speaker 1: closed door meeting that he expects his July number to
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  Speaker 1: be much bigger than his June number. So, inside the
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  Speaker 1: Trump campaign and outside, when you talk to people on
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  Speaker 1: the Hill, uh are they I mean, Donald Trump continues
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  Speaker 1: to say things that maybe to light Democrats because I
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  Speaker 1: think they're so terrible and outrageous and will turn off voters,
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  Speaker 1: but they also seem to annoy Republicans because they're off message,
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  Speaker 1: and they seem to be concerned that Donald Trump has
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  Speaker 1: a hard time controlling what he says too much shooting
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  Speaker 1: from the hip. What are you hearing right? Um? I
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  Speaker 1: talked to several members of Congress after their meetings, and
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  Speaker 1: h Read Ripple from Wisconsin said he's still not backing Trump.
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  Speaker 1: He said the reaction in that meeting this morning was muted. UM.
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  Speaker 1: But Trent Franks from Arizona, UH congressman from Arizona, said
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  Speaker 1: he was a vociferous opponent to Donald Trump. He's now
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  Speaker 1: one of his most committed backers. So it's it's just
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  Speaker 1: you know, I was I was told in this meeting
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Donald Trump did mention that fifty one million
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  Speaker 1: that he raised. People raised some concerns that said, can
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  Speaker 1: we trust you to follow through with these promises that
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  Speaker 1: you're making on the campaign trail? Will you reform wealth
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  Speaker 1: the welfare system? Will you help us defeat isis? Will
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  Speaker 1: you help us secure the border? And his answers to
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  Speaker 1: these members of Congress this morning, according to some of
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  Speaker 1: the members, was very satisfying. So for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: many of these members of Congress left these meetings and
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  Speaker 1: told us that they felt pretty good about it. There
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  Speaker 1: were some sense moments in the in the meeting with
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  Speaker 1: the senators, um uh, we're hearing. The Washington Post reported
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  Speaker 1: on that, But for the most part, it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: they're building unity. People who didn't support him before are
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  Speaker 1: now telling us that they're starting to come on board,
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  Speaker 1: and they'll being They're very confident in him, in him.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for spending time with us and
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  Speaker 1: illuminating the battle for the presidency. Jennifer Jacobs National senior
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