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SINGAPORE | Trump expresses optimism amid final Kim summit preparations

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SINGAPORE | Trump expresses optimism amid final Kim summit preparations

SINGAPORE — In the final hours of calm before an unprecedented summit with North Korea, President Donald Trump forecast a “nice” outcome from what he said would be a “very interesting meeting” Tuesday with Kim Jong Un, while Kim spent Monday out of public view.

Both sides were finalizing preparations for the unprecedented summit, which was to kick off at 9 a.m. Tuesday with a handshake between Trump and Kim, an image sure to be devoured around the world. Trump and Kim planned to meet one on one, joined only by translators, for up to two hours before admitting their respective advisers, a U.S. official said. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about internal deliberations and insisted on anonymity.

The summit will be the first between a North Korean leader and a sitting American president, and could define the fate of millions, as well as their own political futures.

In Singapore, the island city-state playing host to the summit, the sense of anticipation was palpable, with people lining spotless streets Monday waving cell phones as Trump headed to meet with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

As Trump and Lee sat down for a working lunch together, Trump sounded optimistic, telling Lee, “we’re got a very interesting meeting in particular tomorrow, and I think things can work out very nicely.” Earlier in the day he tweeted about the “excitement in the air!”

He also thanked Lee for hosting the summit and for his “hospitality and professionalism and your friendship.”

Meanwhile, U.S. and North Korean officials were negotiating at the Ritz Carlton Monday ahead of the sit-down aimed at resolving a standoff over Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal. A second round of meetings was planned for the afternoon after an initial sit-down earlier in the day.

The meetings Monday were not about logistics, but trying to lay the groundwork for progress to be made Tuesday on substantive issues, according to the official. The delegates were setting out specific goals for what Trump and Kim should try to accomplish and multiple potential scenarios for how key issues can be resolved, said the official, while declining to go into specifics.

The meetings were also serving as a sort of ice breaker, with the teams working to get better acquainted after decades of minimal U.S.-North Korea contact.

Trump and Kim arrived in Singapore on Sunday, both staying at luxurious and heavily guarded hotels less than half a mile apart, with Trump at the Shangri-La Hotel and Kim at the St. Regis Hotel.

“The entire world is watching the historic summit between (North Korea) and the United States of America,” Kim told Lee through an interpreter when they met Sunday.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the former CIA director, spent the morning huddled with top aides preparing for the summit, aides said. He was joined in Singapore by Ambassador Sung Kim, the U.S. envoy to the Philippines; and Ambassador Michael McKinley, a career diplomat Pompeo recently tapped to be his senior adviser.

Pompeo traveled twice to Pyongyang in recent months to lay the groundwork for Trump’s meeting, becoming the most senior member of Trump’s team to spend time with Kim face to face. Illustrating the divisions within Trump’s administration about the wisdom of pursuing diplomacy with the North, Pompeo has been a driving force behind the meeting as national security adviser John Bolton has become a more behind the scenes player.

Trump has said he hopes to make a legacy-defining deal for the North to give up its nuclear weapons, though he has recently sought to minimize expectations, saying more than one meeting may be necessary. The North has faced crippling diplomatic and economic sanctions as it has advanced development of its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Experts believe the North is on the brink of being able to target the entire U.S. mainland with its nuclear-armed missiles, and while there’s deep skepticism that Kim will quickly give up those hard-won nukes, there’s also some hope that diplomacy can replace the animosity between the U.S. and the North.

As Trump was trying to build a bridge with Kim, he was smashing longtime alliances with Western allies, withdrawing from the G-7 joint communique, escalating a trade fight and launching blistering criticism against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Trump continued to tweet angrily at Trudeau from Singapore, saying Monday “Fair Trade is now to be called Fool Trade if it is not Reciprocal.” Again accusing the longtime U.S. ally of unfair trade practices, he added: “Then Justin acts hurt when called out!”

One top Trump adviser cast the move as a show of strength before the Kim meeting. Economic adviser Larry Kudlow told CBS News in Washington that “Kim must not see American weakness,” adding that by criticizing new tariffs, Trudeau was “pouring collateral damage on this whole Korean trip.”

The president has sought to tamp down expectations for the summit, which had grown to include Nobel Peace Prize chatter. Asked Saturday about his goals, he said: “Well, I think the minimum would be relationship. You would start at least a dialogue, because, you know, as a deal person, I have done very well with deals.”

While advisers insist Trump has been reviewing briefing materials, he continues to insist that his gut instincts will matter most when he gets in the room with Kim. He told reporters he thinks he will know almost immediately whether a deal can be made, saying: “I will know, just my touch, my feel. That’s what I do. How long will it take to figure out whether or not they are serious? I said maybe in the first minute.”

Pyongyang has said it is willing to deal away its entire nuclear arsenal if the United States provides it with reliable security assurances and other benefits. But there are major doubts, given how hard it has been for Kim to build his program and given that the weapons are seen as the major guarantee to his holding onto unchecked power.

Any nuclear deal will hinge on the North’s willingness to allow unfettered outside inspections of the country’s warheads and nuclear fuel, much of which is likely kept in a vast complex of underground facilities. Past nuclear deals have crumbled over North Korea’s reluctance to open its doors to outsiders.

Another possibility from the summit is a deal to end the Korean War, which North Korea has long demanded, presumably, in part, to get U.S. troops off the Korean Peninsula and eventually pave the way for a North Korean-led unified Korea.

Trump has also raised the possibility of further summits and an agreement ending the Korean War by replacing the armistice signed in 1953 with a peace treaty. China and South Korea would have to sign off on any legal treaty.

By Associated Press

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Rush Limbaugh 🙌 People Who’ve Never Believed in American Exceptionalism Are Suddenly Very Upset by Trump’s Putin Comparison

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Feb 6, 2017

RUSH: I was out playing golf yesterday and I saw this. It’s a Wall Street Journal story. “Senate Republican Leader McConnell Distances Himself From Trump Stances.” Wall Street Journal: “The leader of the Senate Republicans distanced himself from President Donald Trump Sunday, disagreeing on issues involving Russia, the judiciary and alleged voter fraud.

“[McConnell] on Sunday was pressed on CNN about Mr. Trump’s recent statements, and repeatedly said he disagreed with them.” Now, one of the things that Trump’s really being ripped over the coals for, is Trump did an interview are O’Reilly for the Super Bowl. You know when that interview was done? Friday. They did the interview in the White House on Friday. This is… I know most people think those interviews are live, with the president taking time out from his Super Bowl party in the White House. But Trump was here over the weekend, so that interview took place on Friday.

And Trump was being queried about Putin. And so Bill O’Reilly said, “Putin’s a killer.” And Trump said, “Well, you know, we’re not so filled with innocent people ourselves.” And the roof blew. You would have thought that Barack Obama was back — except when Obama said stuff like that, nobody cared. And so now the same people who covered for Obama… The same people that when Obama was doing worse than that, Obama was out apologizing for America, Obama was admitting to the Chinese that we really shouldn’t be lecturing you ChiComs on civil rights violations because, man, do we have a history of it ourselves.

Remember that? There were frequent examples with Obama, even when it came to immigration, telling other nations, “Well, you know, we haven’t been perfect in this area, so we’re not gonna preach to you!” With Iran and the nuke deal, Obama was saying, “Well, imagine what would have happened if somebody told us we couldn’t have nukes?” And it was always a moral equivalence. And when Obama did it, the United States was always guilty. The United States always had some explaining to do.

So Trump comes up with one of these off-the-wall or maybe spur-of-the-moment comments, O’Reilly says, “Well, Putin’s a killer,” and Trump says whatever he said about, “Well, you know, we have our share of those kinds of people, too,” and everybody is just blowing a gasket. And now you got right-wing commentators and analysts wondering if Trump even understands American exceptionalism or believes in American exceptionalism. You have others… Pelosi is out there saying, “I want to know what Putin has on Trump. That’s the only thing that can explain this. I want to know what Putin has on Trump.”

I don’t pretend, folks, to be able to explain to you what Trump’s attitude toward Putin is and why there is this unwillingness to categorize Putin in the ways that most people actually view Putin. I have no idea what it is. But I don’t think it’s gonna be long until we find out. But I need to ask some serious question. If you’ve listened to this campaign, if you’ve paid attention to the campaign, you saw Trump rally after Trump rally where all he did was stand up for this country. All he did time after time after time was talk about his effort to “Make America Great Again.”

And it’s clear that he thinks America lost ground in competition with foreign countries, trade deals, jobs, economics. But how anybody can then, after hearing Trump promise to work so hard and to tell people, “You’re gonna get so tired of the winning ’cause we’re gonna start winning again! Our country’s gonna start winning,” then Trump has one of these comments, “Well, you know, we have our killers, too,” or I forget the exact quote, whatever it was.

And to take that to mean that Trump doesn’t understand American exceptionalism and doesn’t believe in it, when Obama got a pass — routine pass — numerous times for saying things much worse than that? I don’t know. I don’t know what Trump meant by it. I don’t know why he felt the need to defend. If that’s what he was doing, if he was defending Putin under the blithering assault of Bill O’Reilly and calling him a killer. But now guess what? Putin is demanding an apology from Fox News!

Did he threaten to sue or is he just demanding an apology? (interruption) Yeah. Wouldn’t it be great if Putin sued Fox News for defamation? (laughing) O’Reilly. Folks, I promise we’ll get to the bottom of this and find out what this is all about. But this business with McConnell, this is something that I have known (I’m sure you have, too), that just because Trump won the election doesn’t mean all these Republicans in the leadership are on his side. I mean, many of them are just waiting for what they consider to be the best opportunity that will present itself for them to distance themselves from him.

These are establishment guys. It’s kind of like when Reagan won in 1980. He was not popular with the Republican establishment until he won, and he won with 49 states. There was no question about it. So the Republican establishment, they had to grit their teeth and bite the bullet and sign on and get on board. But privately they were never happy about it because of conservatism.

You know, Reagan was anti-establishment, too. The establishment hangs together. Trump’s anti-establishment. And all members of the establishment, Republican, Democrat, all members are first and foremost devoted to making sure nothing happens to them and their world and their establishment. The Republicans live in a never ending fear of what the media says, because they believe that a majority of Americans are going to believe what the media says, ’cause that’s their experience with it. So it’s a combination of self-preservation — just keep a sharp eye on this.

McConnell poured cold water on the pledge by Trump to launch a national investigation of voter fraud. The president has claimed without evidence that millions of people voted fraudulently in the presidential election. This is a Wall Street Journal story. So keep a sharp eye on that.

Here’s the Sky News report on the Trump-Putin dustup. Bill O’Reilly used the word “killer” while pressing Trump on whether he thought he would get along with Putin. O’Reilly said, “Putin’s a killer.” Trump said, “There’s a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What? You think our country is so innocent?” That’s what set off the fire alarms. “You think our country’s so innocent?” No. No, no, no. Don’t misunderstand. I can totally understand people reacting to that.

My question is where was the reaction when Obama was doing that and worse? You know, when Obama was out there establishing that America was guilty, that America’s superpower status wasn’t really deserved, that the world was out of balance when we, the United States, were the lone superpower in the world. And when Obama belittled American exceptionalism (imitating Obama), “Well, you know, I bet in Denmark they think they’re pretty exceptional too. In Yemen, even in Yemen they think they’re pretty exceptional, too.”

It was obviously a put-down of the whole concept of American exceptionalism, which these people think is us saying we’re better people and that’s not at all what American exceptionalism is. American exceptionalism, it’s actually the root of the word, we are the exception to the way most people have had to live. Human beings, since the beginning of time, have lived in bondage, servitude, authoritarian dictators, political prisoners, in dungeons, in poverty, I mean, dire poverty.

The human condition since human life began has been, for the vast majority of people, real suffering. The United States comes along and all of that changes. That’s American exceptionalism. Not that we’re better than anybody. But Obama heard that as us saying we’re better people. (imitating Obama) “No, that’s not right. We’re not better. In fact, we’re worse, because of our past.” It was convoluted. Nobody ever harped on Obama. Of course nobody ever harped on it for anything. We all know why.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, “We consider such words from the Fox TV company to be unacceptable and insulting; and, honestly speaking, we would prefer to get an apology from such a respected TV company.”

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allow one very smoothly I’ve been said

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that invited but the refugee deal

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not so much i think it was very smooth

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had a hundred nine people out of

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hundreds of thousands of travelers and

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all we did was about those people very

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very carefully you wouldn’t do anything

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differently if you had to do it over

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again and I’m going to do people didn’t

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really know what the order was no that’s

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not what general Kelly said general

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Kelly who’s now secretary Kelly he said

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he totally knew he was aware of it and

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it was very smooth was a hundred nine

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people let’s talk about Iran uh your

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assessment do you think we’re on a

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collision course with being the united

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states with that country i think was the

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worst deal ever seen negotiated I think

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it was a deal that should have never

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been anything you don’t absolutely the

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deal that was made by the Obama

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administration i think it’s a shame that

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we’ve had a deal like that and that we

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had to sign a deal like that and it was

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no reason to do it and if you’re going

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to do it have a good deal we gave them

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1.7 billion dollars in cash which is

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unheard of and we put the money up and

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we have really nothing to show for it

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possible you’re terrible

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we’ll see what happens we’re going to

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see what i can say this they have total

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disregard for our country and they are

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the number one terrorist state and

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they’re sending money all over the place

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and weapons and can do that sanctions

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that’s how you’re going to start with

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them just started but you’re removing a

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carrier right they never talk about

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military moves I always criticized

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President Obama would have an

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announcement that they’re going into

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Mosul or declined to someplace and they

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give the name the date the time I don’t

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believe in that

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so you’re not real bullish on Iran at

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this point no I’m not bullish I think

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they have total disrespect for our

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country and i understand that deal i

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would have lived with it if they said

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okay we’re all together now but but it

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was just the opposite

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it’s like they’re in bolding where they

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they follow our planes they circle our

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ships with their little boats and they

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lost respect because they can’t believe

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anybody could be so stupid as to make a

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deal like that you talk to Putin

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actually in a busy week last again it is

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a pity we can have you respect Putin i

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do is back to be my well I respect glad

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people but that doesn’t mean I’m going

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to get along with him he’s a leader of

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his country

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I say it’s better to get along with

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Russia than not and brushing helps us in

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the fight against Isis which is a major

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fight and Islamic terrorism all over the

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world right major fight that’s a good

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thing

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will I get along with them i have no

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idea particularly on Putin’s the killer

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lot of killers get a lot of killers what

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you think our country so innocent you

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think I country so innocent

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I don’t know of any government leaders

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that are killers and where we take a

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look at what we’ve done to it made a lot

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of mistakes i’ve been against the war in

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iraq from the beginning mistakes are

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different a lot of mistakes okay but a

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lot of people were killed so lot of

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regulars around believe talk about

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Mexico there was a report you talk to

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President be 80 and you told him this

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was the report I want to know if it’s

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true or not that if his army couldn’t

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handle the drug cartels that US Army

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soldiers would did you say that we have

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to do something about the cartels I did

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talk to him about it

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I want to help them with it i think it’s

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a very good man we have a very good

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relationship as you probably melt

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he seemed very willing to get help from

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us because he has got a problem a

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problem and it’s a real problem for us

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don’t forget those cartels are operating

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in our country and they’re poisoning the

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youth of our country at this point you

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consider Mexico a corrupt country

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because this stuff has been going on for

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decades

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I love the people i really like this

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administration I think he’s a good man

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and we get along very well but if they

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have problems controlling aspects of the

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country there’s no question about it and

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i would say the drugs and the drug

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cartels number one

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have you figured out what kind of the

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tariff you’re gonna let me on Mexico to

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pay for the wall

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well right now it’s very unfavorable

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right now we’re losing our jobs to

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Mexico you look at the plants you look

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at these massive plans i have to tell

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you have turned it around

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already have turned around you see that

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Ford has been phenomenal

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they canceled the plant that building

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tremenda you intimidated them you know

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you’re very general motors isn’t Mary

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better are afraid of you you know that I

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don’t know their friend no no they want

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to do what’s right

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get everything you got that right why

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didn’t you always writing in the past

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you’re afraid of the young people spoke

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to him but they’re going to do what’s

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right and they bring jobs back to

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Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania all

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the places that have lost their job so

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that’s already happening

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I think you’re going to see a tremendous

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job girls in discussion let’s turn to

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domestic policy i just spent a week in

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California as you know they are now

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voting on whether they should become a

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sanctuary state so California and the

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USA are on a collision course

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how do you see it why I think it’s

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ridiculous sanctuary cities as you know

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I’m very much opposed to sanctuary

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cities they breed crime there’s a lot of

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problems if we have to we’ll refund we

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give tremendous amounts of money to

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California reality behind california in

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many ways is out of control as you know

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obviously the voters agree otherwise

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they wouldn’t have other form so the

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funding is your weapon of choice is a

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weapon

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I don’t want to fund which are willing

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to JT I wanted to find anybody I want to

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give them the money they need to

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properly operate as a city or state and

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they could have sanctuary cities we may

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have to do that certainly that would be

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a weapon is there any validity to the

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criticism of you that you say things you

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can’t back up factually and as the

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president he say for example that there

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are three million illegal aliens who

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voted and then you don’t have the data

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to back it up some people who say that

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you’re responsible for president to say

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that is there any validity to many

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people have come out and said I’m like

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you know what you gotta have at atlantic

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the stage and it doesn’t have to do with

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the vote although that’s a the end

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result has to do with the registration

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and when you look at the registration

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and you see dead people that have loaded

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when you see people that are registered

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in two states as though

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it in two states when you see other

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things when you see illegals people that

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are not citizens and their on the

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registration laughs look though we can

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be babies but you take a look at the

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registration you have a legal you have

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dead people you have this it’s really a

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bad situation to really bad and so you

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can be proven correct in that statement

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I think I already have a lot of people

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have come out and said that i am you

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know that data has to show that 3

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million illegals promoted to get that

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you get all of that just take a look at

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the registration and we’re going to do

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and i’m going to set up a commission to

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be headed by the vice president Mike

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Pence and we’re going to look at it very

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very careful well that’s good let’s get

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to the bottom of goods 2017 can

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Americans expect a tax cut

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I think so yes and and I think before

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the end of the year i would like to say

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yes

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ok.can Americans in 2017 expect a new

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healthcare plan rolled out by the top

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administration this year in the process

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and maybe it’ll take to some time into

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next year but we’re certainly going to

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be in the process very complicated

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Obamacare is a disaster you have to

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remember Obamacare doesn’t work so we

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are putting in a wonderful plan its

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statutorily takes awhile to get we’re

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going to be putting it in fairly soon i

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think that yes i would like to say by

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the end of the year at least the

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rudiments but we should have something

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within the year and the following you

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alright last question you get for hours

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just leave her some crazy thing like

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that when you’re headed to the pillow

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you ever say to yourself I can’t believe

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I’m here

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I cannot believe that I am the President

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of the United States when I wasn’t a

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politician I didn’t start out this way I

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that was in my life goal you did that

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ever come into my well i must tell you

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the other day I walked into the main

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entrance of the White House and I said

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to myself this is sort of amazing or you

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walk into the air force one it’s like a

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surreal experience in a certain way you

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have to get over it because there’s so

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much work to be done whether it’s jobs

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or other nations that truly hate us

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you have to get over it

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football how do you see this game well I

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my like Bob Kraft I like Coach Belichick

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and Tom Brady is my friend they’re all

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taking gas because of that I know

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they’re taking a lot of changes right

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but you know what is also getting a lot

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of popularity out of it i think they’re

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going to do very well Tom’s a winner

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so you’re gonna win you’re rooting for

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the coaches a great coach

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I think the other team is fantastic

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they’ll know I think it’s a fantastic

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team turned out to be a good quarterback

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but you know there’s less pressure on

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the page it’s because they’ve been there

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you know once you’ve won once you’ve

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done it and they’ve done it once you’ve

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done it is less pressure so we’ll see

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what happens but you know you have to

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stick up for your friends right

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sure now Fox Sports is demanding I i

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asked you to make a prediction

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well I hate to make the addiction to

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cast i hate to do it but also many but

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obviously I don’t even know what are the

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odds i guess it’s pretty even right to

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great yeah but you got it even show up

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today the Patriots were with by how many

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people I sequence

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alright so that’s a good presidential

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prediction emulation and you don’t have

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to do those things but that’s okay don’t

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need a tiny delicate this president

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thanks very much for taking the punch

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alright bill thanks for that thanks to

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President Trump and there’s much more

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from bill o’reilly exclusive interview

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will be airing on the o’reilly factor

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will soon get that

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