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okay we begin with what appears to be
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another instance of quid pro quo by
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President Trump there's a lot to get to
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so we're just diving in it's the same
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issue that got him impeached in the
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first place before a meeting with New
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York Governor Andrew Cuomo yesterday
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President Trump put out a tweet that
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appeared to link his administration's
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decision to freeze New York's access to
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the trusted traveler program with a
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demand that the state drop a myriad of
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lawsuits against him and his
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administration it's just doing it in
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plain sight why not right
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he wrote this I'm seeing Governor Cuomo
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today at the White House and he must
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understand that national security far
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exceeds politics New York must stop all
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of its unnecessary lawsuits and
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harassment start cleaning itself up and
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lowering taxes yeah New York's Attorney
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General Letitia James has issued a
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subpoena for Trump's financial records
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and has filed a number of lawsuits
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against the Trump administration and the
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Trump Organization she responded to the
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president tweet writing when you stop
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violating the rights and liberties of
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all New Yorkers we will stand down until
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then we have a duty and responsibility
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to defend the Constitution and the rule
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of law by the way I filed the lawsuits
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not the governor gosh I'm just wondering
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it's just so weird what where you see
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happening here and I wonder if anyone
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could have seen this coming queue house
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impeachment manager Hakeem Jeffries from
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just two weeks ago what we have alleged
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in this case is that the president
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solicited a personal political benefit
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in exchange for an official act
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solicited dirt on a political opponent
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in exchange for the release of 391
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million dollars in military aid
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solicited dirt in exchange for a White
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House meeting and if this Senate were to
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say that's acceptable then precisely as
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was outlined in that question could take
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place all across
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America in the context of the next
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election and any election grants
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allocated to cities or towns or
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municipalities across the country but
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the president could say you're not going
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to get that money mr. mayor
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mrs. County Executive
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mrs. town supervisor unless you endorsed
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me for re-election president could say
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that to any governor of our 50 states
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that's unacceptable
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that cannot be allowed to happen in our
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democratic republic Chuck Rosenberg it
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seemed so ludicrous when Hakeem Jeffries
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made that example of what potentially
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could happen and yet as of yesterday it
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has what's the recourse what's your take
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moving forward well first of all you
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know it's not that hard to predict that
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the president will be illogical and
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petulant on mica and by the way I don't
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know if you can put his tweet back up
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but there is an a-rank and consistency
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within it first he says that national
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security is much more important than
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politics
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and the very next sentence there's the
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ranked politics right in the very next
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sentence after talking about the primacy
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of national security there comes the
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threat if he doesn't get what he wants a
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cessation to the lawsuits that have been
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filed against him and his organization's
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by New York State then he's going to
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exact revenge
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mr. Jeffries was spot on I give him some
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credit for that but this has been a
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pattern that we have seen over and over
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and over again and I think it's deeply
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disturbing so Jonathan Lemire so much
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has happened we started with this there
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are many other things that happened
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yesterday that we could have started
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with given the Attorney General's
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comments later in the day which we'll
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get to but we've got a situation now
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where the government presidents
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appearing to be issuing quid pro quos in
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real time on Twitter what are you
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hearing from the White House and from
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your sources in Washington
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yeah but he's doing so in plain sight
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there's very little attempt to cover
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this now we know that the president has
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had sort of a pretty contentious
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relationship with Governor Cuomo and
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most of the New York state officials in
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the state because most of them are
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Democrat and of course there been a
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series of investigations that the state
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has run in addition to what's been going
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on in the House of Representatives so
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that is something that the president has
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been irritated about for a while let's
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recall of course he even renounced his
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citizenship of the state of New York is
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now a considered a citizen of Florida in
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part because of how upset he was with
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how things are going on with those
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officials now what he's happening here
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is is exactly representative Jeffries
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implied this seems to be a quid pro quo
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offer right in front this was he took
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away this this program the Global Entry
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Program a few weeks ago he's now
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suggesting he's trying to put it back on
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the table
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if these investigations stop and he gets
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a cheap shot at the governor's brother
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while he's at it
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now with the governor there is no deal
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struck yesterday from what we've heard
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certainly Letitia James the Attorney
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General here in New York is one who
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spoke out forcefully against it but this
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is also a window into how the
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president's feeling right now
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post impeachment completely emboldened
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unchecked we saw what's happened in the
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few days after that verdict Lieutenant
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Colonel VIN Minh marched out of the
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White House yeah in front of the camera
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so people could see ambassador Soglin
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also relieved of his duties
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you know he's weighed in on the Roger
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stone sentencing which I know we'll get
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to a little more in a moment
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and that's just the tip of the iceberg
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he has told people around him as we've
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written this week that he feels like not
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only did he survive impeachment but he's
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come out stronger than ever because no
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one in the Republican Party except for
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Mitt Romney
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it's up to him so we've seen a pattern
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here and Michael Steele it it's the
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president can't take a win he can't take
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a win when he's gotten his way when he's
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gotten through something he can't take a
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win he actually doubled out doubles down
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and gets worse which leads me to Susan
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Collins I believe saying well I believe
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the president has learned a lesson well
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you know he's doing it again in plain
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sight the Republicans own this but do
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they care no they don't and you know
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large measure because you know they've
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saddled up with the president in terms
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of you know the way all of these things
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play out you know on the first part of
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this you know you get
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on the other side of impeachment and
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what you see is the president now
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wanting to exact his his revenge he
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doesn't he wants to settle the score
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this is not over until he says it's over
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until he feels that he's made his point
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after those who you know perceive has
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come after him have you have done so so
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you have that Republicans still sit
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there stymied by the whole thing will
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you have a Susan Collins telling us oh
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well you know he's gonna learn from this
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the president doesn't learn anything
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from these exercises he sees him he sets
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his own course so you know as I've said
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before the important thing Mika is is
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what do we learn from it yeah what do we
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get away from this because that's the
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important part of this we know Trump is
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not going to learn anything cuz he
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doesn't want to I mean he said his
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courses mine in a certain direction so
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what are we taking away from this and
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what will be our next move as government
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as citizens as the state of New York and
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and how do we now adapt on this playing
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field if you will to what the president
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is doing with the with the you know the
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perp walks of of career soldiers from
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from service et cetera
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