Aug 16, 2017

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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1. Bannon came on very much later than

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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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you