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Back to episode — Episode 2866 CWSA 06/12/25

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ent down and killed many of the 242 on board. Now, the reason it wasn't all of them is they had just taken off. But let me give you some advice about that story which is I saw a warning that the video is especially hard to look at and I said to myself how hard can it be? And I watched the video. Let me give you some advice. Don't watch the videos. There were lots of videos of people who got to the…

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to the Kennedy Center. Why do I care? And then I thought, oh, okay, it's a high visibility kind of a situation. And yeah, and I definitely don't like the idea of a military parade. I just don't like anything about that. It's spending money, it's probably damaging the streets. It just doesn't look right. But on the other hand it does make the country look like it's powerful and nobody should mess with it.

So even though some of my instincts sort of argue against these Trump-like expenses, I fee

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l like he's right. And my instinct is wrong because you've got to protect the symbols. The United States is more than just the people and the money and the military. It's also an idea and Trump keeping the idea of America strong by making sure these symbols don't rot. He's right. Yeah, that's the right play. Meanwhile, according to Newsmax, I didn't see this anywhere else, but Newsmax says that t

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