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Okay, and here it is. So we're going to the whiteboard. So here are some words we heard on the tape. We heard Cohen say, we need to finance this company. The company that would be used for the payments, the payments to the ex-Playboy model. And you heard Trump say, finance what? Right? So when Cohen says finance, we would all agree that Trump had a question about the word finance. Finance what? A…

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All right. So have we totally settled that question? And here's my real question to you. Have you seen this explanation before? Because I keep expecting I'm going to see this. You know, I look at the news and I think, oh, somebody's going to do this. They're going to explain what cash means in this context. They're going to explain what finance means in this context. Then it all makes sense.

Somebody's saying I'm contorting myself. What I think we should agree that when people tell me that I'm contorting myself, that that's a tell for cognitive dissonance. Yeah, no. But why did I have to do this? And somebody says you're a businessman. That is correct. So my background is business school and economics. So that's my educational background. And then of course I worked in business for a long time and I worked on things like finance deals. I literally worked in a department called the finance department. So to me this is a little more obvious than it would be if you don't work in that world.

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All right, let's talk about a few more things. North Korea is set to return remains of 55 fallen servicemen. I believe they're all men. And I have these real weird questions about, I guess they're about 5,000 unaccounted for service people from North Korea, American service people. And I think to myself, where are they? I'm trying to say this in the most respectful way, but does North Korea actual…

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