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Presented by the National Association

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of Realtors. Hi

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good morning, I'm club coauthor Rachel

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Bade It's Thursday, April Eleventh, so

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it was another face plant of

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a day for speaker John Cena

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yesterday. His plan to tf a

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vote on these expiring surveillance authorities

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flopped for a third time with

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nineteen republicans breaking ranks on the

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rules votes our what an embarrassment

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And let's just say that Johnson's

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meeting with Marjorie Taylor Green who

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as you all know threaten to

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oust him or threatening to oust

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him didn't. Exactly go well and joining

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me Now to talk about all of

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this house drama is my colleague on

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the Hill team Anthony a drug good

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morning and the Me. A good

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be with you. So. Let's start there

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with this Marjorie Taylor Green meeting.

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I mean, Speaker Johnson said last

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week that he wanted to connect

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with her after she threatened to

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try to out too much. They

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didn't connect over the break, but

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they did finally talk yesterday. What

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happened. They did. They spoke for. you

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know? More. Than an hour

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and. A nothing really

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game of it, but certainly this

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meeting with the speaker didn't nothing

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to assuage any of her concerns

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we could. Yeah. She was

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tweeting later in the day that she wants

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to see an open rule for this Pfizer

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debate that's going on on the hell out

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of course. Obviously she is a huge skeptic

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of Ukraine Aid, so it sounds like she

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just are watching those two issues to see

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what he does. Exactly. She told

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us you know, earlier in the day.

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Basically the those be the two things

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that you'd be watching as she figures

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out what to do with this motion

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to vacate and her next steps in.

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That from. And. You know?

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The interesting thing is, I think we've

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heard from a in are a handful

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republicans, but in this narrowly divided republican

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controlled house we've heard from a couple

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of them that they're open to. It

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was she's trying to pursue here. And

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it would only take a couple to

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as federalists and people are not really

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that are displaying so that sort of

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are in a red siren for speaker

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doesn't. Yeah. That is for hands.

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So you wrote in inside Congress that

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Democrats can't save my Johnson and then that's

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something we should have been discussing a little

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bit and playbook recently. Till where are you

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hearing and and what's the sort of sticking

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behind that statement that dems really can't

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save him. While I think

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you know there's both sort of the

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practical on them, you know the logistical

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of will. We are hearing that there

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are democrats that are open to you

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a voting against this motion to vacate

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which would temporarily save the speaker. but

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in terms of you know the longer

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term view here I think you know

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any republican speaker his propped up by

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democrats that would come in and swoop

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in and save them. You

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know, or they're gonna have a

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a major deficit of of press

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within the Republican conference and so

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that's not really a place that

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speaker done some wants to be

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in obviously and but. You. Know,

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I think that's where recertify nurses at this

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point? Yet seems more likely than not.

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Actually yeah I agree with this

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kind of crazy, but you know

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if that's where we are, he's

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gonna have to face lot of

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you know through the hard decisions

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and next couple weeks about how

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to navigate these channels and clearly

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there is no great options for

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him here. But I think you

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know clearly there are republicans that

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or at least most and vacate

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curious and so how he navigates

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that is gonna be really challenging

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thing for him. Yeah.

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And I think Marjorie ten again.

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She told you as I'm not

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mistaken that if he stays tries

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to say speaker after democrats propping

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up seat he would the basically

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proving exactly what she's saying that

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he's a democratic speaker right Said

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the seeds right into that's talking

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points and aesthetics. The

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latest you're hearing on size and now

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that this rule died yesterday at Republicans.

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had another conference meeting later in the

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day where they try this plot. A

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pass. So word to the have

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a passport yet on the surveillance

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reauthorization. Both. Gas or great

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question? I mean they. they

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huddled in a leave me

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afternoon on Wednesday and emerge

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sort of without any. Concrete.

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Plan here. I happened to catch up

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with. Speaker. Johnson, Tom Emmer,

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the Majority Whip and Majority Leader

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Steve Gliese. They all indicated they

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were still undergoing the planning here

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there. There was no decision yet.

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So either I think this you

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know they're face in April. Nineteen

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Siblings You see this program. Reauthorized.

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But there are deep. Deep.

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Divisions within the Republican Conference right

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now and I think. There.

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Is no plan yet and they're

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trying to figure that out. Sort

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of the as we go, but

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losing nineteen votes for rule as

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you can will appreciate Rachel is

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pretty much unprecedented. I've never seen

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anything like that and so not

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a great vote of confidence here.

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And are just an indication of how deeply

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divided the Republican conference in the houses right

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now. Indeed, Slump Anthony.

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Thanks. For coming on of course think a. We've

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actually got some good news. For Speaker Mike

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Johnson This morning's. A bit of t

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for you and playbook about Donald Trump. World

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been pissed off with Martin. Killer

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Green. Yesterday Cnn reported that

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the speaker is kind of. The appearing

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alongside Trump Am are a lotta love

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and on Friday this is gonna be

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a press conference about election integrity. We

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worked for those last night to get

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a sense of what's going on between

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these two camps. and the answer is

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this: Trump world isn't happy about Marjorie

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to the Greens threat to throw the

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house into chaos. Once again, there's a

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fear that an election year speakership battle

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will actually undercut the party school of

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not only keeping the house, but flipping.

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The White House. And flooding the senate one

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person close to Trump last I told

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me point blank Quote: one hundred percent

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distraction on just stupid. We have enough

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shit to deal with in running a

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presidential campaigns and we're not going to

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get trapped into the cycle of bullshit

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that comes out of members of the

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house. Another person close with Trump

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told me quote it's fair to say

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we don't think she's being constructive regarding

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Marjorie Taylor Greens. This person was going

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on and on about the solution to

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bk and how it can be triggered

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by only one person. The individual said

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it's new way to run a party.

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it's new, wait around the house and

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you can't work in that environment. I

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have some reporting and play with this

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morning that Trump's political operation has actually

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started. To beef up outreach to

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Johnson's political team as Wow at

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the Campaign Senior Advisor Chris. Us

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have either has been in touch with Johnson's

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executive. Director for his own political

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operation. There's talk about doing regular

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meetings between the Trump campaign, Johnson's.

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Operation the Or and see him at

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their concerns. That Modular Greens threat to

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ask Chance. It could lead to this power

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vacuum at a time when all these

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entities are trying. To sort of coordinate

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and sync up messaging. Read more.

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About the contacts between Trump's operation and

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Johnson's team and playbook this morning. As

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to the rest your schedule Today the

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House and Senate or in in the

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afternoon, President Biden will meet with the

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President of the Philippines. then he'll hold

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a trilateral meeting with the President of

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the Philippines and Prime Minister of Japan.

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