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Hey, good morning, I'm Playbook co-author

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Eugene Daniels. It is Wednesday, April

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3rd. Here is what's

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driving the day. First, something

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that you should pay a lot of

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attention to. Nebraska's governor

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on Tuesday threw his support behind

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a state law that would change

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the state's presidential electoral allotment. That

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would take it back to a

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winner-take-all state in the general election.

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If this does actually become law, it

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will definitely shake up the presidential. For

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President Joe Biden, it would take away

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what is currently his easiest path to

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270 —

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one electoral vote from Democratic Omaha and

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wins in the blue wall —

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Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Also

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in a first in playbook, at the

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beginning of March after Super Tuesday and

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Biden's State of the Union, the Biden

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campaign went on what they basically thought

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of a month of action — an

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intensive blast of hires, outreach, and travel

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that was supposed to show that the

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campaign was really starting in earnest. This

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morning, we can exclusively reveal some of

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the stats from that month of action.

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First, Biden held events in every single battleground

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state in less than 20 days. They

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opened up more than 100 offices, including

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scaling up staff in the battleground

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states, sent out more than 2

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million text messages made more than 385,000 calls to

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recruit volunteers. 20,000

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volunteers reached out to voters with almost 120,000

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supporters joining organizing calls. The

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campaign launched Students for Biden,

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Latinos for Biden, and

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Women for Biden. Lastly,

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there was that record-breaking $26 million

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political fundraiser with

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Presidents Biden, Barack Obama, and

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Bill Clinton. All

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of this should probably go a long way to chill

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out those Democrats who were panicked last year when they

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thought the campaign was going to be a long way.

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What Is scaling up as quickly as

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they wanted it? And.

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Lastly, seven people died in in

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Israeli strike against the convoy from

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World's Central Kitchen in Aid organization

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that provides mills to civilians suffering

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from Hungary due to conflicts. The

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organization was founded and is led

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by Hold the Andres. Israeli.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said distract

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was called unintentional and killed innocent

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people. And last night the Chief

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of the General Staff of the

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Idea is released a video on

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social media saying quote A One

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Be very clear the strike was

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not carried out with the intention

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of harming W C K aid

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workers. It was a mistake that

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followed a miss identification at night

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during a war and very complex

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conditions. Is. Shouldn't have

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happened. And. Joining me

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now to talk about that situation in

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Gaza is the author of National Security

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Daily. Met bird Matt Thank you for

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the Monday morning. They. Saw me.

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Now. Met When these kinds of things happen

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we always had Be careful about what we

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know and don't know right? There are some

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things that were certain of in that we're

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still we're putting out. So from your expert

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perks, what does things that we death the

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know about the situation that happened in Gaza?

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Yes, So on. After a dire

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straight by Israel on Monday which

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in a convoy carrying the world's

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as a kitten workers the company

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released the names and also people

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killed for those were members of

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the release team. In three

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were security members. The company

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was delivering food to gardens. This is

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becoming more and more important for groups

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like these private companies to do this

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work and because of fear of salmon

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spraying Gaza and struggles to get a

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than. What? We know is that

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the workers were traveling in clearly marked

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cars en route designated is safe for

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a trust and they're attacked. One of

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the people that was killed appears to

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be the first American killed by an

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Israeli strike since the war broke out

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in October. Always have been killed. They're

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mostly part of Israel's military. We're still

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working on confirming that, but I'm it.

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would the first one invest six months

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that was an American killed by Israel

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directly. Many other A workers have been

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killed in Israel repass months. But.

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This is resonating especially because the

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a the Americans Killed and I'm

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has a Andreas who sounded rather

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took isn't it or influential figure

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in Dc politics and cause a

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demonstration. Yeah. Want to

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get up the reason to so

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much so much attention on this

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one? the details or com a

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harrowing way but you talked about

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these were folks that were doing

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all the right things. They were

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simply trying to help and really

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filling the void that has been

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created because aid can get into

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Gaza. I'll down dress is

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as an icon of sorts in

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Washington, D C is very close

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to the some ministries. He sits

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on a council for the president.

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He has done events with the

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second gentlemen, the first lady, the

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president and vice president over the

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last three years. But on

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a podcast with Anthony Blink, the Secretary

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of State, and some folks that I

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was talking to say that that makes

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them feel that this could be an

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inflection point in this war and more

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importantly in the way that this administration,

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if not just talks about, but also

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deals with when it comes to the

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policy of what's happening in the Middle

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East. Are you having that is woven

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in what's your take on that. It's.

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It's very difficult but this administration to

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determine what is a turning point in

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this war. After the strike there were

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some strong words from the administration, so

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National Security Council John Kirby said

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that the White House has outraged to

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learn that learned strike by at same

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time. During a briefing with reporters he

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said dad that why has will

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continue to support Israel's some sense but

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also stressed that they should work on

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d conflicts in so as civilians and

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humanitarian workers are not killed or

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injured. And attacks. Us. The

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state, if you like him, said

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a similar thing, urging Israel to

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do more to protect civilians. by

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biden also brow statement saying similar

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things coming down hard on Israel.

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Mad. Over the last few weeks kind

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of month been a half or so

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we've been seems the by the ministry

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soon as he puts me saying out

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loud in and public what they've been

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saying privately to Israel and Israeli officials

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and mom for me be with Netanyahu,

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the Prime Minister from the very beginning

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and is become more and more stern.

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I'm looking at the statement President Biden

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sit out yesterday some he has not

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done One other humanitarian workers have been

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killed in this in this conflict I'm

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going to read. To the cinema, I

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want to have you respond to the

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some other side code. Even more tragically,

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this is not a standalone incident. This

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conflict has been one of the worst

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in recent memory in terms of how

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many aid workers have been killed. This

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is a major reason why distributing humanitarian

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aid in Gaza has been so difficult,

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because Israel has not done enough to

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protect aid workers trying to deliver desperately

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needed help to civilians. Incidents

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like yesterday's simply said happens. Israel

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has also not done enough to

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protect civilians. That's all star And

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I know there are a lot

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of people especially in the Democratic

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party the want him to say

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even harsher words. But for Joe

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Biden, a person who has talked

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about him suffer the Zionist these

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a harsh words. Night.

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I completely agree on with also notable

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in As Dame and is that he

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doesn't give a lengthy dedication saying that

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day will continue to support Israel. Of

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course they will, but uneasily, that is

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a significant portion of all these topics.

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Retired douses it. It is relatively in

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line with the white didn't as racist

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said. definitely more stern. By. Stephanie,

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the clearest example of died in two

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days telling Israel. To. Knock it off.

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Map. There's a lot a lot more

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appointment you'd your team have to do everyone take

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on Nasa's. Daily. It's been amazing

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forever and has continued under this new

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regime of mass decision As he hits

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I'm a seats and so we will

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have to have you on again soon

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sir. Think so much. That is,

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unless. And

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at the White House President Biden

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and will be hosting an event

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with Senator Bernie Sanders. According to

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a White House of The Soaps,

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the event will be with health

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care advocates and experts to discuss

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how the Biden here's the ministry

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son is knowing the costs of

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prescription drugs including because of an

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healers something that Senator Sanders has

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been working on for quite some

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time. And meeting

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Daniels. Thanks. For. Listening.