❓DJT on lockdowns, masks, vaccine mandates :::MEGAN KELLY

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For years you've been saying that the
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reason you didn't fire Anthony Fauci was
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because he'd been there for a long time
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that you would have taken heat that it
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would have created a firestorm quoting
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your words
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then for the first time in May.. I also
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said I didn't listen to him too much. I'm
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getting there but then in in May you
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started saying well he's a civil servant
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so I couldn't technically. The truth is
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though not only did you not fire fauci
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who is loathed by many many millions of
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Republicans in particular but also some
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Democrats by the way you made him a star
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you made him a star. This is the
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criticism of you that you made him the
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face of the White House coronavirus.. You
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think so?.. that he was out at every
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presser that he was running heard for
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the administration on covid and that you
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actually give him a presidential
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Commendation before he left office
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wouldn't you like a do-over on that? uh I
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don't know who gave him the
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commendation I really don't know who
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gave him the commendation
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somebody probably handed him a
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commendation he probably - but let me
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just tell you about Fauci; Fauci was very
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important in the Biden Administration
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much less important if you know he
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didn't want to stop China he wanted to
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let everyone come in from China I
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stopped it I overrode it. I overrode
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many of the things he did he was much
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less important to me. now with that all
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being said he's been there for years he
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was respected he lost a lot of the
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respect because of covid but he was
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respected and on covid. if you know what
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I did I let the governors run their
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states and many of the governors opened
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up their states some of them didn't. in
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Florida by the way Florida by the way
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was closed but if you take a look at
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Henry McMaster he had his State the
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South Carolina open you take a look at
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South Dakota take a look at Tennessee a
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lot of the states were not closed and I
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allow it's the Federal system I
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allowed the governors to do that I also
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allowed Democrat Governors to do that
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but I don't think any of them none of
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them did it. uh wouldn't you like to go
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back and try to clip his wings this guy
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was pushing Mass mandates on us he
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wanted the most extreme measure at every
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turn okay look I'm not the one that
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blames A system that if your civil
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service or if you have some other
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protection that you can't get fired
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because I've done things that are a lot
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worse than that you're big on the firing
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so so yeah I fired a lot of people I
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fired Comey and that was one of the
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great firings I fired Comey and then I
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fired a lot of other people in the FBI
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and they were great firings because the
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Deep State and they were at work and
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they were not good people uh but I
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wasn't I was not a big fan of if you
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look at Ron de sanctimonious he was this
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guy said the greatest things I can give
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you articles that well fauci's great
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he's wonderful we love him we don't do
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anything without fauci this went on for
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months but he didn't listen to fauci he
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did a hundred percent look he shut down
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I will give you he shut down Florida for
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a month oh he shut it down for a lot of
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long he shut down the beaches he shut
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down the roads he shut down the hospital
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he was shutting down everything he also
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had long lines of people
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getting the jab as he called it let's
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all go get the jab the guy tried to
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change history in Florida now eventually
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Florida was open but a lot of these
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other Governors didn't shut down at all
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South Dakota didn't shut down McMaster
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South Carolina didn't shut down
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Tennessee there are states that didn't
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shut down at all
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they probably did the best job well Ron
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DeSantis was on under a lot of pressure
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especially given the population the age
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of a lot of Florida's citizens I'm not
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trying to blame anybody but he should
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say I closed it down eventually we
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opened it but I closed it down but I
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gave him the right to keep it open if he
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wanted to I let the governors make the
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determination as to whether or not to
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close it down but let me ask you this
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because this is the number one question
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I asked my audience what would you like
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me to ask president Trump these are your
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fans this is the number one question
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they wanted me to ask you that you shut
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the country down for six weeks in Spring
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of 2020 operation warp speed excuse me
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rush through I didn't realize
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this is my audience but I let the
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governors shut down some did and some
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didn't okay some didn't shut down
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operation warp speed though that was on
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the vaccines they were rushed through
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they have helped but also hurt a lot of
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people and your white house actually
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supported Mass mandates so wouldn't you
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like a do-over on any of that
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look when this came in nobody knew what
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the hell it was it sounded like an
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ancient you know pandemic
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you thought that was from 200 years ago
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or from 1917 we never thought you'd have
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a pandemic nobody had any idea we got
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word that bad things were happening in
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China right around the Wuhan clinic and
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I was the one that said it was in the
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Wuhan clinic and you know I stayed I
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stuck with it and it was it was
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absolutely it came out of the Wuhan
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clinic but you take a look and what we
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did was we this was brand new nobody
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knew what the hell it was this dust
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somebody said there's dust coming in
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from China and it's killing people in
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Italy and it's killing people in France
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and it's going to kill people here and
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by the way I shut it down to China that
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was a big move I saved thousands
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hundreds of thousands of lives by doing
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it but honestly nobody I don't blame a
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lot of people because nobody knew what
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it was now we do understand it somewhat
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nobody really understands it even now
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fully but nobody knew what covet was and
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it wasn't even a name I called it the
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China virus I still do I call it the
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China virus it came out of China
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you know they call it covid and covet
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19. as far as the vaccines concerned you
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had the original covert and the vaccine
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had an impact on that and there are some
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people I will tell you
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some friends of mine that are Democrat I
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think they voted for me but they're
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Democrat very smart people top people
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they say you know I don't understand one
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thing why don't you talk more about the
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vaccine it was one of the greatest
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things you've ever done now think of
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that they say to me and I say I'm not
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going to talk about it one way or the
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other first of all no mandates I don't
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want mandates I never had mandates
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Florida sort of had a mandate because
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they were giving the vaccine they were
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demanding everybody to take the vaccine
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that's another thing but no mandates no
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anything I didn't demand anybody take it
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but I have people on the other side I
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don't not my side although probably
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there's some on my side too they said
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you saved 100 million people because I
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got it done in nine months as opposed to
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five years to 12 Years A lot of people
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are proud of it now I'm not proud of it
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I'm saying what Democrats think
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Democrats I get it I mean and I'm not
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doing I'm not somebody who denies some
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of the good that the vaccines did I I
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lived through that too but of course a
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lot of people have been vaccine injured
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and that's one of the questions those
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people are mad that they were rushed
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through and that they can't sue well I
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never gave mandates and people have to
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make up their own you know make their
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own decision as far as I'm concerned now
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some places had mandates very strong
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mandates a largely Democrat Governors
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and probably some Republicans etc etc
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but there are Democrats that say why
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aren't you talking about that it's one
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of the they really believe strongly one
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said you say and this is very smart
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people they said you saved a hundred
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million people worldwide uh in 1917 you
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know they it could have been as much as
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a hundred it ended the first world war
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because all the soldiers were dying of
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of this horrible disease of 1917. you
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know it actually ended the first world
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war the soldiers were dying there was
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one of lines they're fighting and
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they're dying of this horrible disease
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they said you might have saved 100
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million people 50 million people why
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aren't you talking about I said I'm not
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talking about it but what I did do is I
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got something done for that specific
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thing I also got regeneron and I got a
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lot of Therapeutics done which were
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great I also got the robes and the
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leather and the Rubber and all of the
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different things the ventilators we did
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a tremendous job and it's never you know
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they appreciated what it did with the
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economy I got a lot of good marks on
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economy I got a lot of good marks on a
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lot of things rebuilding the military
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getting rid of Isis the biggest tax cuts
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in history
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I never got I think the credit that I
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deserved on covet and I'll tell you the
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way I look at it it came in and nobody
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knew it was we have to put ourselves
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back then
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I had a meeting and we had a lot of
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Professionals in the Oval Office they
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say Sir something bad is happening in
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the world I said what's that and they
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said people are dying they're dying in
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China in this area
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and there was pictures of body bags all
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over the place black body bags satellite
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pictures
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and they were all over
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I said that's strange and then they'd
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have a next another meeting the next day
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and the next day and the next day and
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all of a sudden they had something where
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the first person died in the United
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States and then another yeah and then it
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died then they started dying all over
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Italy and all over Europe nobody really
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knew what it was Megan

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