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o you think that the United States is capable of building an entirely new designed we'll call it a battleship class, but it's going to be different from a battleship. Do you think they can build that in two and a half years? I don't know. I just suspect we don't have that capability. But we'll talk about in a minute that Trump is going to be pushing the CEOs to learn how to build faster because t…

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rpoint. The counterpoint is we're talking about four cars. So when they call it a fleet, well maybe it's a fleet, but it's four. And somebody also claims that that is a typical way they update security fleets that they would do them all at once because the last batch of them were wearing out about the same time. So if you buy them all at once, the next time you have to update it, well, you would do the same four. You just do them all at the same time.

The other thing they're claiming is that the X5 is way cheaper than the alternatives. There was some alternative that I don't know what it was, but that it was actually a way to save money instead of some way to give himself a cooler car. Again, I'm not saying I know what's true. That's what you're going to figure out because it's sort of a new story, but seems full of — I think MSNBC now had a reporter on there. So that's a bad sign for truth.

And then someone claimed and I don't know if this is true that that particular model is built in an American company although BMW would be the owner of the company that it would be built in America. Now I don't know if that's true either. So it's sort of a new story. You're still in the fog of war situation, if you know what I mean. But my intuition tells me that it's fake news, at least partially, and that all they're doing is upgrading the fle

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et. They had to do it anyway. There's time to do it. They didn't want the most showy or expensive alternative. And that's definitely not a showy car. You know, you would not feel like you were riding any kind of luxury vehicle. It's just a real very functional and they also have great steering and performance and power. So if you wanted a car that gave you good security, you probably want somethin…

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