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Illegal Deportations and Presidential Overreach

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In this episode of 'Need to Know with Dr. Nsenga Burton,' Dr. Burton critically examines the Trump administration's illegal deportations and the broader implications of the President's defiance of the judicial system. She discusses the misuse of a wartime law for deportations, the failure of governmental checks and balances, and emphasizes the importance of invoking the 25th Amendment to address presidential misconduct, and a call to action to contact Congress and demand accountability.


▶︎ In This Episode

00:00: Introduction and Welcome

00:18: Illegal Deportations Under Current Administration

02:09: Questioning the Legitimacy of Deportations

04:26: Current Political Climate and Presidential Behavior

07:47: Call to Action: Invoking the 25th Amendment

08:39: Conclusion and Farewell

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BEP Narrator:

A Black Executive Perspective.

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Now presents need to know with

the award-winning hyphenated Dr.

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Nsenga Burton, Dr.

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Burton.

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What do we need to know?

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Dr. Nsenga Burton:

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Good afternoon and welcome

to Need To Know with Dr.

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Nsenga Burton.

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I am she.

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And today I'm going to talk to you

about something I talked about a little

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bit before, but about the deportations

that have been happening and the

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illegal deportations that have been

happening and the fact that our three

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systems of government are failing.

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Um, so, you know, I guess if you haven't

been paying attention or maybe you've

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just been trying to stay out of the

chaos that is ongoing and consistent

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with this, uh, current president, uh,

there have been a number of deportations

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that, uh, his administration has.

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Um, allowed, agreed to initiate it.

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All the things of so-called

criminals that they wanna get out

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of the country, um, without having

given them any type of hearing.

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Um, done any type of investigation,

none of the things, just like, okay,

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these Venezuelans, you gotta go, this

Lebanese professor, they gotta go.

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Uh, 'cause they said something

I didn't like about me.

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I, I don't care that they work at

Yale where all of the justices went.

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Not all of them, but many, uh,

the Supreme Court justices went.

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Um, but they gotta go.

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And even though a court, uh, judge

is saying, Hey, you cannot invoke

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this wartime law to do this,

what is now illegal activity?

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We are not in war even.

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Are we at war yet?

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We probably will be based on

his crazy actions, but not yet.

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So the judge is like, you gotta

come back before they're leaving.

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It is like, you can't leave, the plane

can't leave, then they leave anyway.

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Then it's like, okay,

turn the planes around.

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They don't turn the planes around and

they just keep going and dropping 'em off.

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And even, uh, where they're dropping

them off, um, you know, the countries are

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sending them, um, social media messages,

like thanks, which means they're probably

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gonna have some negative consequences

when they get to wherever they're going.

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Um, and you know.

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I'm not here to judge what

they've done or not done.

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I haven't seen any evidence or read

any evidence that they're criminals.

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I mean, they're just saying

that that's what they are.

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Um, so you know, what happens

happens in that way, but how

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it happened is a problem.

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And that's what we have to talk about.

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Um, so many people I think are focused

on, oh, these are gang, gang people.

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And I'm like, but are they really?

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That's what they're saying,

but where's the evidence?

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We don't have any evidence of that.

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Now they're giving us this

wartime, you know, law.

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They pulled that up and printed that.

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Like, we have the right to do this.

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Just like the guns, you know,

with the Second Amendment.

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And it's like.

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Yeah, we have a national guard.

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We've got veterans, we've got four

branches of, of, um, protection.

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We don't really need that anymore.

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You know, we don't need militias

anymore, but hey, if you keep, people

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wanna keep, you know, stocking up your

militias for when we go to war again.

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Um, I guess you can 'cause

it's, it's your right.

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But you know, this 18th, um, 18

hundreds, uh, I think, I can't remember

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the year, I think it's 1867, um,

where they had this wartime, um, law

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that allows him to deport people.

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It is crazy.

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And the fact that that was invoked

in order to do something illegal and

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then to not only do it willfully,

but then to ignore the courts is

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crazy, especially since he appointed

so many people to the courts.

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So.

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His test of loyalty is, if

you will let me break the law.

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'cause he is a convicted felon.

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I wanna remind people of that.

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People are like, can you believe,

yeah, you gave the criminal,

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the keys to the United States.

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Yes you did a convicted,

a convicted felon.

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You gave them the keys to the

United States, but then you're

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trying to act like you're surprised

that he's breaking the law or he's

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not listening to judges, right?

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When there hasn't been any

consequence, none to any of the

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things that he was found guilty

of and he hasn't paid a nickel.

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On it, on, you know, all the

restitution that he has to pay as well.

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But you are feigning surprise.

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So again, I want to say when people

show you who they are, 'cause I said

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this is the last segment, believe them.

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But what I wanna also say is, please stop.

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Can we come into the current,

in the present, um, situation.

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Currently right now, people keep

talking about the past, people

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keep talking about the future.

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Can we talk about, right now we have

a president who is out of his mind.

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When he made that, uh, when he went

to that press conference, uh, with

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his attorney General, and he turned

around, and I don't know if you caught

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it, but he turned around and looked

up and waved at a picture of himself.

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There is something wrong with that dude.

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Right?

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So we already know that he's, there's

something wrong with him Now, Joe

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Biden was too old for you all.

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Right.

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You even pulled him outta retirement.

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Messed up his probably the best

years that he could have had.

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'cause he had to come save us

after 45 had destroyed the country.

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Right.

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Um, and I know some of y'all don't

think he saved us, but you had

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jobs when he was in, in office.

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Now you don't So I'm just gonna say, you

know, you had a, a retirement that you

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could count on when he was in office.

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Now you don't, you don't even know if your

social security's gonna be here tomorrow.

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Um, but anyway, I digress.

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Um, veterans had, uh, uh, rights and

they had benefits, uh, 'cause there

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was a veteran who was the president.

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That's all I'm gonna say.

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Um, but the point is that we have

someone who is off the rails and

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there is such a thing as the 25th

Amendment that can be invoked when you

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have someone who is off the rails in

office and who is not able to be, um.

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Uh, reigned in, I think that's a

better word, reigned in, he's not able

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to be reigned in even with the three

executive branches of government.

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The other two, um, I say executive

branches, the three branches of

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government, the other two branches

of government, um, is what I meant.

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And so when you have someone

who's off the rails, who's doing

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things that are, are illegal.

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As president of the United States

and you know, I have a healthy, um.

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I have a, I have a healthy

mistrust of government.

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Let me just say that.

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Uh, so I'm not saying that the,

the United States government

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hasn't ever done anything illegal.

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I'm not saying that what I am saying in

this particular case, it is the president.

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And he is doing things that are illegal

and the courts are like, I think trying to

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help him like, listen, you can't do that.

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Just come on back.

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But he is so defiant and fixated

on what he wants to do and

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what his followers want to do.

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'cause they're not

voters, they're followers.

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It's a cult.

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I believe that.

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Yeah.

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I believe it's a cult.

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It's cult-like behavior.

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Because even if you did vote for him, if

you see what he's doing now and you are,

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and you are an American, and you believe

in the country, you believe in patriotism,

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you believe in due process, you believe

in, um, innocent until proven guilty.

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You believe in those, uh, beliefs,

values, laws that we have in place,

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then there's no way that you can, um.

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Go along with what he's doing.

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So to wrap this up, I'll just say what you

need to know is that 47 is off the rails.

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He is not able to be handled

or reigned in by anyone.

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He is surrounded by yes people, thus,

and so he is now not even listening to

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the courts and doing whatever he wants.

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So if he's doing that with, in

this instance, believe you and me,

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he's gonna be doing it in other.

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Instances, they're gonna have

far, far, uh, more reaching and

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far more horrible consequences.

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So, uh, what you need to know is that

there's a 25th amendment and you need

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to be contacting your Congress people.

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Uh, and I've said it before,

it's not that he's a Republican,

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it's the type of person he is.

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Um.

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We can't all be in the same party.

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We can't have, uh, we're

not a socialist country.

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We don't have like 15 different

parties, political parties.

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We got a two party system right now

that could change and it probably will

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change following these last couple

of presidencies, few presidencies.

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Um, but right now we got a two

party system and we also do have

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a constitution and we do have a

25th amendment, and that can be

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evoked to remove a president who is.

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Out of line and out of control.

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So I encourage you to contact your

Congress people and ask them no demand

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that they do something about this

ridiculously, uh, abusive, abusive

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power, uh, and heinous behavior,

uh, that we're seeing from 47.

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That's it.

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I wish you a great day.

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Please tune in next week

for a need to know with Dr.

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Nsenga Burton and definitely tune into

the award-winning A Black Executive

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Perspective podcast hosted by Tony and

Chris, uh, which is great listening.

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Have a wonderful day.

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And stay focused and

stand up for yourselves.

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Call your Congress people.

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Alright, bye.

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