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Brad Johnson Trump administration changes Feb 10 2020

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Brad Johnson there have been here we are
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in February 10th of 2020 and there have
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been some administrative changes within
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the US that may be significant can you
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detail that please
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sure well what’s just most recently
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happened and this again was based on a
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question from one of your viewers and a
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very nicely put together question
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insightful and the the question was
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about how the Secret Service after the
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9/11 Commission was moved over into
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Department of Homeland Security and now
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the president has just moved it back to
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Treasury which is where it had
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traditionally been located and Secret
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Service does do things like they’re kind
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of a besides guard the president and
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vice president and others it also does a
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couple of other things that you wouldn’t
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necessarily think like a counterfeit
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money and things like that so there is
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good logic as to why they’re actually in
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Treasury and so part of its to go back
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however this is also part of a larger
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development within the White House that
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we’re seeing and just in the last day a
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couple of developments have taken place
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including that switch back to Treasury
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for Secret Service the overall goal here
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is to start to take these political
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elements within particularly the White
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House but out of government as a whole
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to take those the political aspects of
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it out and so removing Secret Service
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out of DHS back to Treasury is a step in
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that direction it’s an attempt to kind
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of split these back off put it back
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where it belongs let them run in the in
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the in the area where they’re supposed
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to be busy and doing things and kind of
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try to take the political elements of it
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out most of those political elements are
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deeply anti-trump and so we’ve seen
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these all be used at the same along the
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same vein we’ve seen these people the
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ambassador to the UN was recalled that
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they weren’t fired what’s being reported
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in the news is all these people were
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fired
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that is a bold-faced lie they were not
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fired that guy was recalled they come he
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comes back I believe that person is the
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ambassador’s is State Department so he
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goes back to State Department gets what
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job he gets the vendôme and twins
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Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin who was one
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of the people who famously testified
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against president trop was sent home
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from the National Security Council his
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twin brother also sent home from
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National Security Council
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so Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin is a
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military officer he’s not a permanent
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employee of NSC National Security
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Council he’s military and he just had a
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tour a time where he served at NSC so he
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was sent back to the Pentagon and he’ll
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be reassigned or retired do whatever he
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does back at the Pentagon but none of
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these people were fired and they’re just
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being eliminated out of working for
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President Trump because why would
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president Trump want those guys that
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have been stabbing him in the back to
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continue to work for him so what have we
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seen this is something we’ve discussed
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president Trump has figured out that
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this all the politics to some of this
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and he’s beginning to stretch his wings
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a little bit in in government how to
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handle government put it that way
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internal government issues now he’s not
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a swamp dough dweller he’s not a
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politician he’s a businessman that’s
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come in so a lot of this stuff is not
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second nature to them he does not
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understand how his power works within
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that bureaucracy and what we’re starting
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to see here is the development of that a
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lot of the people that have surrounded
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him all along have not wanted to help
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him they have not wanted him to
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understand where his bureaucratic powers
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start and in he doesn’t know that he or
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he hasn’t perhaps until recently
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understood that with a stroke of a pen
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he can take away
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Clarence’s for example he can do things
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like you know wholesale asked for the
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resignation or send back all of the
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people in Tennessee he could get rid of
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every single person there just by waving
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his hand now he’s beginning to
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understand that and it does take time I
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will say this is something common I
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observed personally with all of the
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presidents coming in there was about a
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two-year learning curve to where they
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really started to figure stuff out and
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something we’ve discussed before but
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Trump is now arriving there maybe it
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took him his third year to do all to
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figure all of this out because he
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doesn’t have that background in
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government so
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we’re going to see these changes these
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changes are moving forward he’s starting
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to I guess you could look at it as
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consolidate the people around him with
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more supporters and starting to remove
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those people that are absolutely
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stabbing him in his back hating his guts
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the a lot of there are a lot of names
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for these but the resist movement people
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he’s finally figured out are never going
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to support him the president the United
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States came in thinking as many
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businessmen would that if you come into
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a new business and do a good job you’re
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going to build support among those
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people because they’re going to see that
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this company now has legs and is going
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to last and you know you’re going to
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continue your job you’re not going to go
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broke and he’s you know treating the
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people decently and and just as a good
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business leader he expected that sort of
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response out of government and that’s
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just not government 90 I don’t know I
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don’t know that anyone has ever put
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together these statistics but 90% of the
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people in my experience who are in
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government only have ever really been in
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government they may get out of school
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have a summer intern job or something
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like that but they’ll go in directly
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into the military or directly into some
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other government agency and they spend
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their entire working career in
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government so it’s just a different
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breed of person with different
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experiences and background and you have
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the Democrats where in government that
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hate Trump no matter what he does
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you have the never Trump earners about
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half the Republican Party if you will
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that also hate Trump and it doesn’t
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matter what he does and he’s only now
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starting to figure out that the
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conservative Christian conservatives the
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real Patriots that believe in you know
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God country honor are the ones that
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which you know like me and a lot of
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people around he’s here that way that
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actually believe in the Constitution and
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believe in the greatness of the United
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States of America and that is his
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constituency that can help him within
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government and he’s only just now
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started to tap the surface of that and
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draw those people over a lot of what
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he’s done before our judges for example
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have were based on the Federalist
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Society so yeah the truck administration
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deserves credit for that but really what
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they did is just went to the Federalist
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Society and said who would be good
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conservative picks that are gonna uphold
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the Constitution and they’ve given them
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to him and he’s done a pretty good job I
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mean they’re the guys that have gotten
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in have been
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been solid so some better than others
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but but good so that’s this learning
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curve that we’re seeing the president
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figured out and this next year starting
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now with what we’ve seen and then with
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the Durham report and all of those
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things come out you’re gonna see a lot
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more cleaning a house and a lot more
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draining of the swamps so fingers
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crossed on all of that and be prepared
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for lots of news especially I would say
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the next two or three months there’s
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gonna be a lot of movement well that all
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sounds very very reasonable and if it’s
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true and if President Trump gets
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reelected the next four years should be
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spectacularly effective we should see I
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can guarantee you it’s true and I’m I
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can almost guarantee you he’ll be
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re-elected so I think the odds are that
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we’re going to see a lot happening
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that’s fantastic that’s just great news
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like I mean talk about a restoration of
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American values
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thank you very much Brad Johnson thank
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you

 

 

 
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