Former President Obama’s recent speech raises eye brows, says Brad Johnson, retired Sr CIA Operative and President of Americans for Intelligence Reform. Obama stepped out of private life to excoriate Trump over his handling of the pandemic. But is this timing related to Barr’s expected indictments and, if so, why? While seeing no Obama connection to the Flynn case, is Obama worried, asks Brad? And Chuck Todd? Was his “editing” of AG Barr’s comments on CBS an accident or more of left-leaning political editing? He reviews the event sequence of the case, bringing us up to date.
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almost certainly and in fact we know the
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whole how this thing unfolded you know
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in this specific instance we’re really
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talking about the Flynn case it is
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related to the FISA Fiasco as well but
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just in this case we’ll define it down
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to just the Flynn case so the way this
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whole thing originated was the Russian
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ambassador called Flynn and one to have
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a conversation which he was going to be
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the you know the new national security
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adviser to the president so it was a
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natural thing and that’s something that
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all of these people you know that are in
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positions of power Nancy closely talks
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to the Russian ambassador Chuck Schumer
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talks to the Russian ambassador they
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have lunch so I mean none of this is
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weird or unusual or anything but what
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happened is the Russian ambassador calls
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Michael Flynn says you know introduces
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himself they chat for a little bit no
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big deal and so what does he do he
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properly then reports to James clapper
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who was still the hack that the DNI
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director of national intelligence so he
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reported it to clappa which is what he
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was supposed to do
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clapper then reports it to President
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Obama President Obama then tells Sally
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Yates who then is the she was the deputy
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at DOJ the Department of Justice and
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later became Acting Director you know US
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Attorney General of Department of
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Justice for a short period of time into
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the the Trump administration before Jeff
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Sessions was put in so he reports it to
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her and that’s what kicked off this
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whole thing that was in that meeting
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where he held back James Comey and her
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and told him about this thing and from
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there Doggett got kicked off and that’s
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where finally Peter stock became
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involved and that’s where these we see
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these text messages going back and forth
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whoa wait a minute what are we trying to
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do to General Flynn are we trying to you
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know prosecute him or get him fired and
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you know so they’re trying to figure out
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what it is their goal and then now
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go back and figure out how to obtain you
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know attain those results that they’re
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after so I mean it’s just absolutely
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your conclusive corruption on the part
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of of the Obama administration which
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includes Obama in that that circle of
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the information going there now a couple
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of interesting things out of all of this
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for one thing now Obama’s been
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relatively quiet all along as soon as
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this touched on him this is where he
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starts saying these comments I’m
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paraphrasing but he said something
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basically to the effect of now we have
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to question the very basic law
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enforcement in the United States now
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with general Flynn’s case being
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dismissed
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having been this proven perjure and all
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this stuff well none of that’s even true
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I mean it wasn’t how the case was done
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he wasn’t convicted of perjury you know
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he he it wasn’t a perjury case he was
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never charged with perjury what he was
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what it was was that he was supposedly
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lied to the FBI for which the FBI had
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said initially it wasn’t true he just
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told us whatever was and and they even
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supplied the transcripts of the
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conversation so you know it was like you
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know you guys want to know about sure
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yeah what do you want to know he told
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him everything he could and gave him the
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transcripts of it and all of this and
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they said yeah okay there’s nothing
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wrong with this case this guy just told
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us everything he knew what’s all of a
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home and then Peter struck step stepped
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in and said ah hold on you know we need
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to go after this guys and that’s that
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was the origin of the whole thing
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clearly 100 percent political corruption
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on the part of Sally Yates James clapper
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you know maybe not so much because he
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was that was the reporting chain so he
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was just kind of telling what he was
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supposed to do but I think where it
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became dirty probably was in that
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conversation with Obama Sally Yates and
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James Comey head of the FBI
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so it would be interesting to see what
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was specifically told to them if we ever
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find out James clapper you know
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interestingly I think his reaction to
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the whole thing and why Keyes has said
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in interviews
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like what’s the big deal we were just
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doing whatever President Obama told us
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to do and so I mean he’s just shifted
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the blame to Obama he told Obama Bob was
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the one that did something with it so
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we’ll see how it all unfolds but that’s
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where we saw Obama suddenly come out of
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the woodwork where he hadn’t been saying
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too much and become public on this why
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would he do that now it would be one of
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those things or if he was so right and
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everything was perfect you know I I
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don’t think he would be commenting so
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strongly all of a sudden I think it’s
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the same as what I’ve been saying all
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along for all of these people they know
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they’re in trouble and they’re building
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a defense in advance of the problem
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coming out because I think it’s clear in
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them in the Flynn case that they’re
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looking at indictments now who would
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what and all of those I don’t know
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haven’t gotten any information on that
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but I think that’s all being looked at
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and Sidney Powell which is Flynn’s
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attorney has come out and said look at
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this look at this look at this look at
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this
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and they’ve got your Reeves of
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documentation on all this stuff so these
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guys that were involved in the
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background at the senior levels of DOJ
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FBI the usual cast of characters are
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once again in trouble on this issue so
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we’ll see now so we’ve got this public
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feud going on between President Trump
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and former President Obama because
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Obama’s trying to build his his defense
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as I said in advance in the public forum
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and Trump is saying calling it Obama
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gate which is pretty fair because if
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Obama actually told those people to go
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do it and they just framed this guy
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it’s dirty cops you know the all these
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guys are dirty cops ordered to do it by
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President Obama
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maybe we’ll see this is the first time
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that we’ve seen anything touch President
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Obama personally and that’s why we’re
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seeing this reaction we know he’s very
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sensitive to those sorts of things and
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he’s seen most of what he put in place
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during his term of presidency be just
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wiped out under under President Trump so
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I think this is his chance to try and
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defend himself and go on the offensive
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at least a little bit
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very interesting other part out of this
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we see now suddenly people coming out of
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the woodwork as well to help former
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President Obama and I think in Obama’s
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comments about how we all need to be
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worried about the very fabric of
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law enforcement and the rule of law in
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the United States I think that that’s
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the clarion call to Obama supporters to
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go after everything involved with this
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because he senses himself in danger and
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he’s calling out the troops to help and
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I think the first round of this is what
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we just saw there was that interview
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excuse me on CBS that was done with US
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attorney general bar and he was asked
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how will something the effect of how
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will history view him and his answer was
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well history is written by the victors
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haha and but in this case what I did was
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I supported justice I upheld the rule of
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law because the case that was done
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against general Flynn was bad it was a
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bad case done by bad cops and I fixed it
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so what I am doing is fighting for the
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Department of Justice fighting for the
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FBI and fighting for the rule of law so
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that was his point now what was that
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interview stood it was an interesting
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interview was very interesting to see US
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Attorney General Barr speak the man is
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very straightforward and I think he was
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telling us precisely the truth in a
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lawyerly way of speaking very concisely
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and so I you know I think you could take
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exactly what he says it and face value
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in this interview and most of the time
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when he speaks now what was done and
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what I say is the interesting part of
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this the twist is that this was picked
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up by Chuck Todd on what is at NBC right
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and what he did was he took that first
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little part of what what US Attorney
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General Barr said about the you know the
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victor rights history haha and then went
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on to make his serious point he cut it
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off right there and said you know this
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guy doesn’t even talk about it seriously
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you know all he does is make this glib
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comment you know what are we coming to
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and so he was had an interview he some
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lady he was interviewing on there and
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they went off on saying how how
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unserious these were and how dangerous
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it was they don’t even try to support
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the law these are just lawbreaker
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political types blow them a lot what
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they’re doing is blaming US attorney
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general bar for
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they actually did it was the Obama
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administration and those high-level
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officers in the Obama administration
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that did precisely that they didn’t care
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about the rule of law and they used the
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government powers to political to target
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political enemies that’s exactly what
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they did
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now they got caught President Trump has
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said that that Chuck Todd should be
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fired from NBC and uh and very
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interestingly nobody’s really come out
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to support the president except for me
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I agree President Trump is right he
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should be fired but almost nobody has
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including Fox News for example
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interestingly now everybody else CNN you
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know they’re not going to but Fox News
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you would think they would at least kind
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of pay attention to that and and give it
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a chance but what they’re reporting the
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Bret Baier and the five and these most
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of these guys on Fox News they’re
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reporting of it was and the way that MDC
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has played it was oops we made a mistake
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so sorry and Trump has said see this is
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proof of fake news because you knew that
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you cut that clip off and then argued as
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if he hadn’t done it to try and
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manipulate your public your viewing
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public who’s watching this and that’s
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precisely precisely what happened for
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NBC to say oops inadvertent accident so
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very sorry and Trump and Trump correctly
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points out well those accidents never go
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the other way they’re never in my favor
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so it’s silly for you to try and say it
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was oops an accident and like I said
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interesting out of all of that that Fox
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News has completely flipped on the on on
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their basic reporting where they would
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include conservative reporting before
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they were never all conservative but you
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had a lot of conservative reporting and
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you would still get your your liberal
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reporting as well remember Hannity in
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comes back in the old days classic
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conservative and and liberal you know
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having these discussions and Fox Fox
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always made that effort at both that is
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now gone Fox has gone over to liberal
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reporting and their take on this whole
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thing is that
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it’s an accident Chuck Todd is never
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gonna get fired and you know blah blah
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blah you know which is absolute you know
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it’s the stuff that comes out of the
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south end of a northbound bull and they
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know it everybody knows everybody knows
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this was done on purpose and yet all the
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reporting is oh it’s an inverted
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accident he apologized okay
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case is over but this is the perfect
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example of exactly what President Trump
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has said it is the fake news they are
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lying and manipulating and cheating to
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get what they want just like what we
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have seen out of the Department of
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Justice in the past not now and the FBI
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in the past not now
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in in targeting political enemies they
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will lie cheat and steal they don’t care
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about the rule of law they don’t care
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about the truth the American public they
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don’t care about any of this stuff all
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they care about is their own political
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motives and winning one they they deem
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as their right and and that’s what
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mentally justifies this stuff that’s the
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that’s the process that Chuck Todd goes
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through internally to justify because he
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thinks his political desires and goals
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are so correct and so important see so
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arrogant about this that to to lie and
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manipulate in the way that he did is
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justified so this is the problem with
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the mainstream media today including Fox
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News they’ve like I said they’ve gone
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over to the dark side on this stuff
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there’s no more balance they you
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remember these to say fair and balanced
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reporting all the time yes
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where is it now it’s gone they don’t say
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that anymore and they don’t do it
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anymore well the timing is always
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difficult to guess and Attorney General
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Bar plays those cards very close to the
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chest so he doesn’t draw pence on it
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don’t know but I would think there’s no
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reason for it to go past 60 days I
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haven’t expect to know something apps
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start to have some ideas within 30 to 60
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days would be my guess but you know you
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don’t know there’s other things going on
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but that would be my expectation how as
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to how high what general did blended was
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absolutely fine he reported it clapper
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normal should have done it clapper
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reporting to the president
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should have done it the president
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bringing it to the attention of the head
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of the FBI and the DOJ was Sally Yates
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and James Comey I don’t think is illegal
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I don’t think there’s any problem there
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it’s from where it went there – between
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there and Peter Straub that then how the
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FBI manipulated all that so the James
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Comey Peter Straub perhaps Sally Yates
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those people would be the would be at
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the Nexus of this and if there are
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indictments against them on that the
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them it would be them plus the people
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around them that help them that would be
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those would be the people that would be
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indicted I don’t see how Obama could be
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anything more than you know dragged
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through the mud on this just because
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it’s you know unless he ordered them to
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do this and even if he did I don’t think
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that unless there were a bunch of other
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people in that room which what
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everybody’s reporting is that he sent
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everybody out held those two back coming
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in Yates told them his story and if he
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said to them I order you to go get this
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guy take him out then he would he would
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of course be guilty you know if that can
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be proven but I don’t think even if
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combing in Yates were convicted they
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would turn and flip on Obama and say
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well he ordered us to do it that’s the
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only reason we did it I just don’t see
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that happening so I like I said I think
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it would be confined to combing Yates
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Peter struck of that group of people who
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were already the same people who are in
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trouble on the face of Fiasco so they’ve
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got a lot of problems looming and
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President Trump has hinted at this
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saying a lot more is coming out it’s
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going to be a lot worse you guys aren’t
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going to believe it
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president Trump love him or hate him
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which I have come to admire him a lot of
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the stuff he does greatly is a
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straight-shooter you know he he isn’t
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Machiavellian in the sense of making up
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tricky stories and things like that he’s
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a straight shooter so he’s saying it
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exactly as he sees it he ought and is
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fully convinced that there’s a lot of
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stuff about to come out
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I don’t think US Attorney General bar is
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reporting to him on all the intricacies
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of what’s going on and I don’t think
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President Trump has any management
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oversight of what US Attorney General
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Barr is doing but I do think that US
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attorney general bar gives him an idea
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of where they’re headed and what’s out
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there and what will be coming and those
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sorts of things in a general sense so I
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think that’s where we’re at I think
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that’s how it’s it’s a going to play out
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and that’s and I think Trump is
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precisely telling us you know
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telegraphing what’s coming
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