President Trump Pulling no punches, both sides are to blame Charlottesville Va And some really good news on the Country's Infrastructure
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hello everybody great to be back in New
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York with all of our friends and some
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great friends outside the building I
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must tell you I want to thank all of our
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distinguished guests who are with us
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today including members of our cabinet
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Treasury Secretary Stephen minuchin OMB
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director Mick Mulvaney and of course our
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transportation secretary who is doing a
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fabulous job Elaine Chao thank you all
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for doing a really incredible and
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creative job on what we're going to be
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discussing today which is infrastructure
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we've just had a great set of briefings
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upstairs on our infrastructure agenda my
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administration is working every day to
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deliver the world-class infrastructure
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that our people deserve and frankly that
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our country deserves that's why I just
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signed a new executive order to
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dramatically reform the nation's badly
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broken infrastructure permitting process
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just blocks away as the Empire State
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Building it took 11 months to build the
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Empire State Building but today it can
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take as long as a decade and much more
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than that many many stores where it
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takes 20 and 25 years just to get
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approvals to start construction of a
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fairly routine highway highway builders
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must get up to 16 different approvals
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involving nine different federal
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agencies governed by 29 different
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statutes one agency alone can stall a
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project for many many years and even
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decades not only does this cost our
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economy billions of dollars but it also
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denies our citizens the safe and modern
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infrastructure they deserve this
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over-regulated permitting process is a
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massive self-inflicted wound on our
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country it's disgraceful denying our
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people much-needed investments in their
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community and
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just want to show you this because it
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was just showing me and I think I think
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I'm going to show it to the media both
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real and fake media by the way this is
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what it takes to get something approved
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today melanne you see that so this is
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what it takes permitting process flow
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chart that's a float yard so that can go
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out to 20 years this shows about 10 but
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that could go out to about 20 years to
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get something approved this is for a
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highway I've seen a highway recently in
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a certain state I won't manage to
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mention its name it's 17 years I could
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have built it for 4 or 5 million dollars
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without the permitting process it costs
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hundreds of millions of dollars but it
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took 17 years to get it approved and
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many many many many pages of
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environmental impact studies this is
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what we will bring it down to this is
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less than 2 years this is gonna happen
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quickly that's what I'm signing today
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this will be less than 2 years for a
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highway so it's going to be quick it's
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going to be a very streamlined process
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and by the way if it doesn't meet
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environmental safeguards we're not going
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to approve it very simple we're not
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going to approve it so this is maybe
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this one will say let's throw the other
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one away would anybody like it from the
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media would anybody like that long
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beautiful chart you can have it
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so my executive order also requires
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agencies to work together efficiently by
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requiring one lead agency for each major
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infrastructure project it also holds
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agencies accountable if they fail to
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streamline their review process so each
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agency is accountable we're gonna get
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infrastructure built quickly
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inexpensively relatively speaking and
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the permitting process will go very very
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quickly no longer will we tolerate one
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job-killing delay after another no
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longer will we accept a broken system
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that benefits consultants and lobbyists
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at the expense of hard-working
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Americans now I knew the process very
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well probably better than anybody I had
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to get permits for this building and
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many of the buildings I built all of the
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buildings I built in Manhattan and many
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other places and I will tell you that
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the consultants are rich people they go
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around making it very difficult they
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lobby Congress they lobby state
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government city governments to make it
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very difficult so that you have to hire
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consultants and that you have to take
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years and pay them a fortune
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so we're streamlining lining the process
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and we won't be having so much of that
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anymore no longer will we allow the
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infrastructure of our magnificent
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country to crumble and decay while
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protecting the environment we will build
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Leeming new roads bridges railways
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waterways tunnels and highways we will
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rebuild our country with American
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workers American iron American aluminum
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American steel we will create millions
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of new jobs and make millions of
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American dreams come true our
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infrastructure will again be the best in
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the world we used to have the greatest
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infrastructure anywhere in the world and
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today we're like a third-world country
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we are literally like a third-world
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country our infrastructure will again be
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the best and we will restore the pride
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in our communities our nation and all
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over the United States will be proud
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again so I want to thank everybody for
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being here god bless you god bless the
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United States and if you have any
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questions we have Mick you could come up
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here please come on up Mick Mulvaney if
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you have any questions please feel free
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to ask
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because they're not taking their job
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seriously as it pertains to this country
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we want jobs manufacturing in this
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country if you look at some of those
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people that you're talking about they're
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outside of the country they're having a
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lot of their product made outside if you
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look at Merck as an example take a look
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where excuse me take a look at where
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their product is made it's made outside
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of our country we want products made in
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the country now I have to tell you some
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of the folks that will leave they're
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leaving out of embarrassment because
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they make their products outside and
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I've been lecturing them including the
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gentleman that you're referring to about
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you have to bring it back to this
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country you can't do it necessarily in
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Ireland and all of these other places
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you have to bring this work back to this
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country that's what I want I want
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manufacturing to be back into the United
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States so that American workers can
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benefit I didn't I wanted to make sure
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unlike most politicians that what I said
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was correct not make a quick statement
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the statement I made on Saturday the
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first statement was a fine statement but
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you don't make statements that direct
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unless you know the fact it takes a
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little while to get the facts you still
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don't know the facts and it's a very
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very important process to me and it's a
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very important statement so I don't want
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to go quickly and just make a statement
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for the sake of making a political
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statement I want to know the facts if
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you go back to my effect I brought it I
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brought it I brought it as I said on
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remember the Saturday we condemn in the
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strongest possible terms this egregious
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display of hatred bigotry and violence
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it has no place in America and then I
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went on from there now here's the thing
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as to excuse me excuse me take it nice
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and easy here's the thing when I make a
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statement I like to be correct I want
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the facts this event just happened in
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fact a lot of the event didn't even
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happen yet
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as we were speaking this event just
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happened before I make a statement I
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need the facts so I don't want to rush
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into a statement so making the statement
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when I made it was excellent in fact the
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young woman who I hear is a fantastic
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young woman and it was on NBC
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her mother wrote me and said through I
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guess Twitter social media the nicest
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things and I very much appreciated that
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I hear she was a fine really actually an
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incredible young woman but her mother on
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Twitter thanked me for what I said and
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honestly if the press were not fake and
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if it was honest the press would have
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said what I said was very nice but
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unlike you and unlike excuse me unlike
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you and unlike the media before I make a
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statement I like to know the facts they
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don't say what not at all
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I think the country look you take a look
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I've created over a million jobs in some
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president the country is booming the
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stock market is setting records we have
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the highest employment numbers we've
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ever had in the history of our country
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we're doing record business we have the
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highest levels of enthusiasm so the head
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of Walmart who I know was a very nice
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guy was making a political statement I
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mean you know because I want to make
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sure when I make a statement that the
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statement is correct and there was no
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way there was no way of making a correct
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statement that early I had to see the
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facts unlike a lot of reporters I didn't
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know David Duke was there I wanted to
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see the facts and the facts as they
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started coming out were very well stated
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in fact everybody said his statement was
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beautiful if he would have made it
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sooner that would have been good I
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couldn't have made it sooner because I
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didn't know all of the facts frankly
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people still don't know all of the facts
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it was a really important excuse me
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excuse me
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it was very important to me to get the
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facts out and correctly because if I
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would have made a fast statement and the
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first statement was made without knowing
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much other than what we were seeing the
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second statement was made after with
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knowledge with great knowledge there's
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still things excuse me there's still
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things that people don't know I want to
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make a statement with knowledge I wanted
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to know the facts okay
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two questions was this terrorism and you
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tell us that your feeling about it your
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chief strategy well the driver of the
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car is a disgrace to himself his family
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in this country and that is you can call
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it terrorism you can call it murder you
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can call it whatever you want I would
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just call it as the fastest one to come
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up with a good verdict that's what I'd
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call it
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because there is a question is it murder
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is a terrorism and then you get into
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legal semantics the driver of the car is
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a murderer and what he did was a
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horrible horrible inexcusable thing I
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never spoke to mr. Bannon about it I
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like mr. Bennish he's a friend of mine
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but mr. banek came on very late you know
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that I went through 17 senators
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governors and I want all the primaries
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Bannon came on very much later than12-30
that and I liked him
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he's a good man he is not a racist I can
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tell you that he's a good person
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he actually gets a very unfair press in
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that regard but we'll see what happens
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with mr. Bannon but he's a good person
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and I think the press treats him frankly
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very unfairly
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us getting good health care well I don't
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know I can't tell you I'm sure Senator
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McCain must know what he's talking about
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but when you say the alt-right define
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all right to me you define excuse me
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what about the alt left they came
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charging at the as you say the alt right
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do they have any semblance of guilt what
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about the fact that came charging that
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they came charging with clubs in the
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hands swinging clubs do they have any
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problem I think they do that was a
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horrible horrible day wait a minute I'm
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not finished
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I'm not finished fake news that was a
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horrible day I watched those very
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closely much more closely than you
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people watched it and you have you had a
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group on one side that was bad and you
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had a group on the other side that was
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also very violent and nobody wants to
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say that but I'll say it right now you
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had a group you had a group on the other
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side that came charging in without a
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permit and they were very very violent
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what you call the alt left is the same
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as neo-nazis I owe those people all of
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those people excuse me I've condemned
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neo-nazis I've condemned many different
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groups but not all of those people were
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neo-nazis believe me not all of those
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people were white supremacist by any
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stretch those people to protest the
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taking down of a statue robert e lee so
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excuse me and you take a look at some of
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the groups and you see and you know it
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if you were honest reporters which in
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many cases you're not but many of those
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people were there to protest the taking
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down of the statue of robert e lee so
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this week it's robert e lee i noticed
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that stonewall jackson's coming down I
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wonder is it George Washington next week
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and is it Thomas Jefferson the week
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after
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you know you oh you really do have to
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ask yourself where does it stop but they
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were there to protest excuse me you take
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a look the night before they were there
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to protest the taking down of the statue
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of Robert Ely infrastructure question go
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ahead the property lease they up I would
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say that's up to a local town community
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or the federal government depending on
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where it is located
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I think they've gotten better or the
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same I look they've been frayed for a
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long time and you can ask President
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Obama about that because he'd make
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speeches about it but I believe that the
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fact that I brought in it will be soon
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millions of jobs you see where companies
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are moving back into our country I think
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that's going to have a tremendous
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positive impact on race relations we
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have companies coming back into our
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country we have two car companies that
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just announced we have Foxconn in
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Wisconsin just announced we have many
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companies I say pouring back into the
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country I think that's going to have a
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huge positive impact on race relations
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you know why it's jobs what people want
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now they want jobs they want great jobs
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with good pay
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and when they have that you watch how
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race relations will be and I'll tell you
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we're spending a lot of money on the
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inner cities we're gonna fix we're
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fixing the inner cities we're doing far
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more than anybody's done with respect to
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the inner cities it's a priority for me
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and it's very important
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I'm not putting anybody on a moral plan
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what I'm saying is this you had a group
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on one side and you had a group on the
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other and they came at each other with
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clubs and it was vicious and it was
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horrible and it was a horrible thing to
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watch but there is another side there
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was a group on this side you can call
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him the lefty you've just called him the
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left that came violently attacking the
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other group so you can say what you want
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but that's the way it is there's Blaine
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yes I think there's blame on both sides
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you look at you look at both sides
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I think there's blame on both sides and
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I have no doubt about it and you don't
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have any doubt about it either oh and if
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you reported it accurately you would say
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but you also had people that were very
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fine people on both sides
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you had people in that group excuse me
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excuse me I saw the same pictures as you
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did you had people in that group that
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were there to protest the taking down of
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to them a very very important statue and
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the renaming of a park from robert e lee
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to another name George Washington was a
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slave owner was George Washington a
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slave owner so will George Washington
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now lose his status are we gonna take
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down excuse me are we gonna take down
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are we gonna take down statues to George
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why how about Thomas Jefferson what do
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you think of Thomas Jefferson you like
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him okay good
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are we gonna take down the statute
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because he was a major slave owner now
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we're gonna take down his statue so you
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know what it's fine
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you're changing history you're changing
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culture and you had people and I'm not
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talking about the neo-nazis and the
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white nationalist because they should be
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condemned
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totally but you had many people in that
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group other than neo-nazis and white
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nationalists okay and the press has
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treated them absolutely unfairly now in
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the other group also you had some fine
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people but you also had troublemakers
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and you see them come with a with the
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black outfits and with the helmets and
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with the baseball bats you got a you had
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a lot of beds you had a lot of bad
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people in the other groups we were
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saying you were saying the press has
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treated white nationalists unfairly
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there were people in that rally and I
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looked the night before if you look they
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were people protesting very quietly the
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taking down of the statue of Robert Ely
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I'm sure in that group there were some
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bad ones the following day it looked
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like they had some rough bad people
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neo-nazis white nationalists whatever
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you want to call them but you had a lot
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of people in that group that were there
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to innocently protest and very legally
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protest because you know I don't know if
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you know they had a permit the other
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group didn't have a permit so I
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we tell you this there are two sides to
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a story I thought what took place was a
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horrible moment for our country
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a horrible moment but there are two
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sides of the country
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does anybody have a final does anybody
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have any leaven infrastructure what
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makes you think you can get an
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infrastructure bill you didn't get
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healthcare we came very close with
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healthcare unfortunately john mccain
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decided to vote against it at the last
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minute you'll have to ask john mccain
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why he did that but we came very close
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to health care we will end up getting
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healthcare but we'll get the
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infrastructure and actually
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infrastructure something that i think
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will have bipartisan support on i
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actually think I actually think
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democrats will go along with the
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infrastructure to the family of the
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victim of the car now be reaching out I
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was very i I thought that the statement
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put out the the mother's statement I
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thought was a beautiful statement I was
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tell you it was it was something that I
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really appreciate it I thought it was
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terrific and really under the under the
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kind of stress that she's under and the
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heartache that she's under I thought
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putting out that statement to me was
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really something I won't forget thank
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you all very much thank you thank you
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no I own a house and where is it oh boy
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it's gonna be it's in Charlottesville
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you'll see where is it say it is the
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winery I mean I know a lot about
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Charlotte's well Charlottesville is a
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great place that's been very badly hurt
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over the last couple of days I own
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actually one of the largest wineries in
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the United States it's enjoys overcome
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the racial divides as well I really
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think jobs can have a big impact I think
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if we continue to create jobs over a
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million substantially more than a
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million and you see just the other day
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the car companies coming in with Fox you
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know fuck I think if we continue to
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create jobs at levels that I'm people
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i'm creating jobs i think that's gonna
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have a tremendous impact positive impact
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on race relations and what you said
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today how do you think that will impact
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the racial sort of thing are they
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working they're gonna be making a lot of
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money much more money than they ever
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thought possible that's gonna happen and
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the other thing be very important I
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believe wages will start going up they
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haven't gone up for a long time I
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believe wages now because the economy is
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doing so well with respect to employment
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and unemployment
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I believe wages will start to go up I
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think that will have a tremendously
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positive impact on race relations
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