
Trump's Executive Orders Take Hold
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President Trump continues his attempt to overhaul the federal government through executive action. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will be encouraged to target schools and churches, worrying immigration advocates. And January 6th defendants are being released from prison.
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"Why are there riches on Reese's peanut butter cups?"
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"Probably so they never slip from her hands."
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"Could you imagine I'd lose it?"
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"Luckily, Reese's thought about that."
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"When would else they think about?"
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"Probably chocolate in a peanut butter."
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It's Wednesday, January 22nd.
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Elections have consequences, like immediately.
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We start here.
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President Trump's team gets to work.
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He is surrounded by loyalists, people, who he believes are going to carry out his demands.
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In his first full day back at the White House, priorities are being enacted, and opponents are being punished.
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We'll get you up to speed.
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Meanwhile, ICE agents will be encouraged to poke around schools.
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"Nothing is off limits."
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What new orders will mean for immigrants, including those who entered legally, and January 6th perpetrators are already being released.
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"Thank you for having a job.
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We're coming home."
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We'll examine what "partons" mean for law, order, and political violence.
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From ABC News, this is Start Here.
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I'm Brad Milky.
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Most presidents talk about their first 100 days in office.
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In a town where your power can wane by the day, that is the most fertile ground on which to make your mark.
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Those around President Trump will tell you though, he is less interested in the first 100 days than the first 10 days, the first day.
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The last time he came into office, there were so many competing factions led by people with no government experience that several of his biggest initiatives ran into legal and political walls.
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And so while yesterday was technically Trump's second day on the job, it was the first full day at work for his new White House team.
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And we are already seeing the swiftness with which they plan to execute their vision.
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So let's start the day with ABC Senior White House correspondent Selena Wang.
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She spent the day in the West Wing, Selena.
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First off, I'm just curious, what's it like there?
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Like 9 a.m.
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first morning of a new administration.
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What is the vibe?
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Yeah, Brad, it's absolutely fascinating because with the change of presidential administrations, there's also a big shake up in staff and they all have to move in.
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They're coming to DC and there are tons of moving trucks outside of the White House on a inauguration day and the following day, you could still see a lot of those moving boxes.
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People are trying to get settled, get into their new offices.
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So a lot of activity in the West Wing and in the Oval Office, Trump's team already putting his personalization on it.
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The artwork has changed.
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The rug is different, gold curtains are back in.
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But beyond that, I mean, Trump is walking into the White House in a very different place.
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First full day as president, we're back.
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And we had a great first term, but we're going to have an even better second term.
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The Republican Party is now hit as he's remade the party in his own image and he's really had years to prepare.
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You reference this at the top, Brad, but he is emboldened now because he is surrounded by loyalists, people who he believes are going to carry out his demand.
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It's not like the first time around where we saw a lot of divisions because these were people from what was then the Washington establishment who didn't necessarily agree with what President Trump believed.
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And to your point, he is moving at a rapid pace.
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I signed a sweeping slate of executive orders to stop the invasion of our borders.
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I launched a government-wide effort to defeat inflation and bring down the cost of daily life and bring down the cost of energy, magnificently bring it down.
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There was a flurry of executive orders on day one, revoking Biden-era rules on immigration, pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords, the World Health Organization.
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But what's really important, as we talk about, executive actions, they aren't lasting.
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It can be easily overturned by the next president, as we're seeing what he's done with what President Biden did.
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And it only really changes policy within the executive branch.
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For Trump to carry out his long-term visions, those big policy changes on taxes, on the border, on immigration, he, of course, needs Congress.
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- Well, and we know he met with Republicans in Congress.
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Yesterday, they talked about how they're going to pass sort of future funding bills.
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And he also made several other announcements, sort of to your point about the longer term.
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What about AI infrastructure?
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I mean, what is that, and what's the announcement, I guess?
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- Yeah, this was a major announcement at the White House on Tuesday, so he was joined with the leaders of open AI, soft bank, and Oracle.
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These three companies are starting a joint venture that will start with a $100 billion investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure and the United States.
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And that investment could reach up to $500 billion over the next four years.
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- AI holds incredible promise for all of us, for every American.
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This is the beginning of goal that is.
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- goal of America.
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- goal of America.
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This is one great example, I think.
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- Their first project is a data center in Texas.
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So this is all a little bit confusing, but essentially what it boils down to is that artificial intelligence development requires a lot of energy, power, and data centers.
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That is why it requires this physical infrastructure.
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And this for Trump, he believes he's making good on a campaign promise about securing American leadership in AI as the United States races with China to take the lead in this industry.
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- What we wanna do is we wanna keep it in this country.
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China is a competitor and others are competitors we want.
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We want it to be in this country and we're making it available.
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- But Brad, as we know, it is one thing to secure the commitments.
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It is another thing to make sure that these commitments come true.
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Remember back in 2017, Trump announced that Foxconn would be building this massive factoring Wisconsin that would create more than 10,000 jobs.
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Well, that never ended up happening.
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So we will see how all of this turns out, but those tech billionaires who are with Donald Trump on Tuesday, they are very excited about what's ahead, but of course we've got to see if this promise comes true.
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- Hey, and one of the president's EOs instructs agencies to end their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
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And basically to put anyone who was working on them on leave, the Office of Personnel Management started implementing these last night.
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It already appears unions who represent these workers are gonna be fighting back.
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But I guess I'm wondering, Selena, who else is on the chopping block here as these governmental coals start happening?
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And we'll have to do with how President Trump feels about you, about your mission and about your politics.
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- Yeah, well, look, there's a lot of concerns about political firings across the federal government, but when we talk about whether or not Donald Trump is going to make good on his campaign promise of political retribution,
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we are already seeing some evidence of that.
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- You take a job, you wanna do a job, we're not gonna have security on people for the rest of their lives, why should we?
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- Within hours of taking office, President Trump revoked the U.S.
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Secret Service Protection for John Bolton, his former National Security Advisor.
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Now, John Bolton was granted that security detail because he's faced threats on his life from Iran.
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And in fact, the Department of Justice had charged an Iranian national in 2022 for plotting to kill Bolton.
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Back in his first term, Trump had ousted Bolton in 2019 after they had a falling out.
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Bolton then wrote a book detailing his time working for Trump, that really enraged Donald Trump.
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And Bolton was not shy in his book about sharing his true feelings about Trump, writing that Trump is unfit to be President and quote, if his first four years were bad, a second four will be worse.
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- All right, that's Selena Wang, big, second day, big every day, starting right now at the White House.
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Thank you so much.
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Thanks, Brad, I'm sure we'll be talking a lot more.
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- Now, just because President Trump signs an executive order does not always necessarily mean you'll see changes overnight.
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Sometimes these things can take departments weeks or months to implement what the president is ordering.
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But the Department of Homeland Security, which handles immigration and customs enforcement, has already started issuing orders to their employees based on Trump's wishes.
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So, I wanna check in with ABC's Maria Villarreal, whose base in Texas she covers immigration, Maria.
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We had talked yesterday about a few of these things, like the idea of ending birthright citizenship, that would obviously have a long road ahead in the court since it's in the Constitution.
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And in fact, yesterday more than 20 states issued lawsuits to prevent it from being changed.
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But there are a lot of other border policies to go over here as well, right?
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I mean, what is happening?
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- You know, I think that describing this as a long road ahead of us is probably the perfect way because there were, I think, around a dozen different executive orders put into place that had to do specifically with immigration.
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And some of them were meant to send a message, and some of them were meant to be enacted very quickly.
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The big one, obviously, is declaring the Southern border a national emergency.
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- So, this is a proclamation declaring a national emergency at the Southern border of the United States?
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- That's a big one.
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A lot of big ones, huh?
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- This really is a big umbrella that allows this administration to do a number of little things, and the devil's in the details, right?
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But, you know, some broad strokes here, you can say that it helps them basically put funding towards and restart construction on the border wall.
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On top of that, again, sending the military troops down to the border, you know, that's also a part of that big umbrella executive order.
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- We will reinstate my remain in Mexico policy.
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- I think the remain in Mexico, you know, this one we might see have a greater impact on our, you know, neighbors to the South.
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I mean, a quick description of what remain in Mexico is.
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So, this is basically saying, yes, you can come here, you can seek asylum, but you're not staying in our country while you are waiting for your case to be heard.
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You are gonna have to wait in Mexico.
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Here's the issue with that.
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- Here's my ginger, my eyes.
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- So, tell them, don't feel like that's gonna be first.
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That's gonna matter.
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- You know, if you take a step back and look at where we were about three to four years ago, we had major issues in Mexico along the border with migrant tent camps that were,
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you know, staged all, all right there near the port of entry.
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- And I thought that I'm coming here for, yeah, better life.
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Or to be a human at least.
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- These were people that had been given, you know, court dates, didn't want to miss them, couldn't go into the interior of Mexico because they really didn't know anybody.
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And so, they were just camping out, right?
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They're at the border.
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Not only was this an issue with illnesses, sickness, people being out there without food, water, bathrooms.
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- Well, I'm trying to help them.
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I feel helpless, not able to give proper care, not able to completely help them because our resources are very limited.
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- Then it became also a very dangerous situation where the cartels were coming in and taking over some of these.
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- It become like lawless tent cities, basically.
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100% and at the time, Mexico really wasn't stepping in to police these areas.
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- Well, and then like the president can't necessarily tell a city or a state what to do, right?
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Like he can't preempt state law.
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He can't tell local law enforcement what to focus on or what to enforce, but he can tell immigration officials, right, ICE agents, those are federal employees.
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Can't tell them like where to go and how to do their jobs.
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And the big question has been whether we will see raids, targeting areas with a lot of undocumented migrants, perhaps even like an ICE presence in or around schools.
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I mean, what kind of effect would those policies have on communities?
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- I think we are already starting to see some effects here, Brad.
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I think there are a lot of people that saw this play out not just during the first Trump administration where there was an aggressive stance, a hard stance on immigration, but there were a lot of raids, you know,
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10, 15, 20 years ago where ICE was a completely different organization at the time.
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So those are the people that are very concerned about what this is going to look like inside our schools.
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- We will no longer allow sanctuary schools here in the state of Oklahoma.
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Every state should follow our lead.
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President Trump and his administration have been crystal clear that illegal immigration will no longer be welcomed and these issues will be dealt with.
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- Just in the last 24 hours, Brad, for example, we saw a note come out, a statement from the Department of Homeland Security saying no longer are schools and churches going to be havens for migrants that should not be here in our country.
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What this says to me is that nothing is off limits.
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And I think that is what is giving a lot of people worry and heartache because when you have a mixed status family, how are you going to get to that parent?
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How are you going to get to that uncle that cousin who may not be here legally?
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Well, you're going to try and go through it by the children.
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- It's an honor for me to study here.
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And my parents, more than anything, they did it in search of something better for me in my future.
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- So we actually spent some time in South Texas and met a young junior in high school.
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Her name is Maria.
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And she talked to us a little bit about what life was like.
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Her parents sent her into the U.S.
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to live with her grandmother for a better opportunity, better schooling.
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So she is here on Avisa.
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And while this may not directly affect her now, I think she is keenly aware of what could happen over the next few months.
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- This is the thing is we've decided as a society that kids should have access to school, right?
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And you even have school districts who will say, by law, we are required to take everyone because we're not going to say you're an illegal immigrant so you can't come in here.
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It wasn't your idea to come here anyway.
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So school say that it's just good for everyone.
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It's in everyone's best interest to have kids that are accounted for and cared for and educated.
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And yet, if you're an undocumented parent and you hear they're going to be ice agents milling around at the school or the church and they might be asking kids, "Hey, what are your parents' deals?"
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You might start keeping those kids home from school and even documented families might not feel as safe either.
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So we will see what happens.
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Maria V.
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Ariel, covering the border, as always.
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Thank you.
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- Thanks Brad.
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Meanwhile, many people are still wrapping their minds around the fact that on his first day in office, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 convicted criminals who took part in the January 6th attacks on the Capitol.
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- At least the cases that we looked at, these were people that actually love our country, so we thought a part would be appropriate.
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- Yesterday, families of fallen officers voiced their outrage.
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Some law enforcement officials said they were appalled.
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There was even shock within the militia groups who were pressing for violence in the first place, not because they were disappointed, but because President Trump's pardons, they said it went beyond their wildest dreams.
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This has become a lightning rod for lots of reasons.
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And for months, ABC's Jail Bryan has been in touch with people on both sides of this issue, including those in federal prison.
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Jay, you're actually speaking to me for outside Jail right now, right?
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I mean, what actually happened when Trump signed this order?
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- Yeah, we're sitting in a car, Brad, outside the DC Jail.
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It's like 20 degrees, and it's us and a bunch of protesters who have been here now at this demonstration, which pops up in the shadow of the Jail every single night for more than 900 nights now.
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- We will say, we will say, we will say.
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- Earlier this week, they did what they do every night, which is that they talked to rioters who were inside the Jail on the phone on speaker phone.
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- And the folks, the folks.
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- But this time, on inauguration night, after Donald Trump had issued these sweeping pardons, these rioters got on the phone with these protesters and said,
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"Thank you, President Trump, we're coming home."
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- Who were then 1500 pardons, that covers virtually everyone who has ever been charged with a crime connected to January 6th, from just walking through the Capitol and trespassing or parading,
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or those who are convicted of violent attacks on police officers.
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- We're trying to hold you up a bit.
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- More than 140 police officers were injured at the Capitol on January 6th.
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(crowd cheering)
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- So they'd have Trump as our president again.
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- There was this palpable sense outside the D.C.
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Jail on inauguration night of jubilance that these rioters were finally coming home.
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- Love you.
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- I love you, I love you, I love you.
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- See you in a minute.
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(crowd cheering)
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- The exact number is somewhat unclear, but I can tell you, Brad, I've talked to families of convicted Capitol rioters across the country who say their loved ones have been released from federal prison or as we speak,
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they're in the process of being released and they're on their way home, Brad, because of these sweeping pardons from Donald Trump.
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- They come by 11 o'clock last night and pound it on our cell door over the classroom and say, "Get ready."
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'Cause you're getting out of here.
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So we had to pack up.
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- So I've been asking some of these formerly incarcerated January six defendants, some of whom didn't do anything violent or were never convicted of doing anything violent.
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- And what do they charge you?
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- Prading and picketing inside the U.S.
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Capitol.
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- Should people who assaulted police officers get the same kind of a pardon?
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- It's President Trump that gave out the pardon.
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- So it's up to him.
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- Donald Trump did a blanket pardon because, and not just so he could do a favor for his boys, but so he could set the record straight.
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His administration is not an administration of political prisoners.
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- And their reasonings vary.
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They claim that these trials were political, which is not true.
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- Do you regret anything that happened on January six, any of your actions?
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- Well, I don't really necessarily regret.
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Much of my actions as much as how many actions of others.
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- You changed the way that day played out?
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- Yeah, I wish Ashley Babbitt were still alive.
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- They claimed the Department of Justice was weaponized against them, which is not true.
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In some instances, they claim that the police incited Capitol rioters to commit violence that day.
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- People within the police line that are actively picking out the young, the weak, and the sick, and the old.
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- Which is also not true.
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It's been used as a defense repeatedly in court by some of these Capitol rioters.
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And it's never been successful in court.
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A judge has never bought it, a jury's never bought it, because it's just not accurate.
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- Well, and Jay, the concern from a lot of people was that this would embolden the extremist groups that had shown up on January 6th, hoping for an outcome just like this, right?
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So I mean, we've heard from groups like the oath keepers.
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I think there were proud boys at President Trump's inauguration rally.
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What are they saying about all this?
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- So remember, when I talked about those 1500 or so pardons, there were 14 people who were not included in that.
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They all got commutations, not pardons from Trump.
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And they were all former members of the oath keepers or the proud boys, largely charged with seditious conspiracy.
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They were accused of trying to use the violent attack on the Capitol to try to stop the peaceful transfer of power.
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And people like Stuart Rhodes, for instance, the founder of the oath keepers, were convicted.
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Stuart Rhodes was serving an 18 year federal prison sentence because he was convicted on charges of seditious conspiracy.
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And Stuart Rhodes, right after he got out of federal prison, he showed up outside the Washington, D.C.
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jail.
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- Oh, I was at Cumberland, Maryland just until last night.
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- He wasn't in prison in D.C., although he was somewhat nearby.
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- Why do you think he weren't pardons versus commutants?
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- I'm not sure, but that's okay.
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I'm on the clarification for a pardon, and I believe I'll get one.
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- He goes on to push falsehoods about the 2020 election and things of that nature.
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- You were accused of working with oath keepers, creating a plan to execute what happened that time.
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- There was a bunch of nonsense, a bunch of garbage.
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- And I ask him, do you have any regrets for what you were accused of doing and what you were convicted of doing that day?
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- I was innocent, entirely innocent.
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Like I told the judge, you know what I'm saying?
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I said, "Like President Trump, I'm only guilty of opposing those who are destroying our country."
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That's what I told him.
00:22:15
- Okay, so then obviously among this community, whatever you wanna call it, jubilation, right?
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What has been the reaction like in Washington?
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I'm thinking of Capitol Hill where obviously this all unfolded, and I'm thinking of the Justice Department where people spent literally years prosecuting these cases.
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- I can tell you, Brad, from the career prosecutors that our teams have talked to to the Capitol police officers who defended the Capitol in January 6th, and other people in law enforcement, there is a sense that these pardons absolutely send the wrong message.
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- The Capitol police chief and an internal memo to officers saying when there is no price to pay for violence against law enforcement, it sends a message that politics matter more than our first responders.
00:22:57
- And so we took that question to Republican lawmakers.
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Do they defend this action of Donald Trump's?
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- I think that there's a difference between violent crimes and nonviolent crimes.
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- And a couple of moderates said they don't like Susan Collins of Maine, who's always been a thorn in Trump's side.
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But then other Republicans said that they felt these pardons were a long time coming.
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- Yeah, I think they were absolutely justified again.
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I don't know all the cases.
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I certainly don't own a part in any violent actors, but there was real miscarriage justice here.
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So I'm totally support of it.
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- I pressed Rick Scott, Senator of Florida.
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- What about those who assaulted police officers and then were parted and by the press?
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- I haven't seen, I haven't gotten to the detail.
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- Democrats, Brad, of course, were outraged by this and the message this sends.
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- It's a golden age for lawlessness and lawbreakers who were pardoned yesterday by President Trump.
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- But one of them, Tim Cain, Democratic Senator of Virginia, said, - When I think it's harder to make it critique, to stand on the high ground and make a critique of the Trump pardons in January 6th when President Biden is pardoning family members.
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- Yeah, you heard some people on the far right, basically saying like, we knew Trump wanted to do something, and once Biden kind of lit the right wing on fire with his pardons, that opened the door for Trump to go even further, basically.
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All right, Jay O'Brien, they're outside DCJL right now.
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Thank you so much.
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- Thank you, Brad.
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- Okay, one more quick break.
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When we come back, you worked your whole life to get an Olympic medal.
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You did least expect it to stay shiny.
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One last thing is next.
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- And one last thing, there might be nothing more precious to an athlete than an Olympic medal.
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- Earlier this month, the American swimmer Gary Hall, Jr.
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revealed he had to abandon all 10 of the medals here and back in the 90s and outs, including five gold medals as he fled the Paradise Fire in California.
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- Seeing that the smoke from the fire was going directly over my roof, I did not have much time.
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- You could tell us, he described them how much they meant to him.
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- It was something that I was gonna hand down to my kids.
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- The International Olympic Committee has announced he'll get each of those medals replaced, but there's a problem.
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They've also received a lot of other requests for replacements recently and hardly any of those are because of fire.
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You might remember last year during the Paris Olympics, what a big deal the medals were.
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- We feel a responsibility to do things the right way.
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- They've been specially designed in secret by the luxury jewelry maker Shaw May, which is part of the Louis Vuitton Empire.
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They each included a piece of the original iron from the Eiffel Tower.
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They all had intricate designs, the ones for the Paralympics had braille inscriptions on them.
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It felt like every detail had been thought of.
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Except recently, more and more Paris Olympians have said their medals are looking well cheap.
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That these little design elements are literally flaking away.
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I didn't know this, but Olympic gold and silver medals aren't actually solid gold or silver.
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For the last hundred years, they've generally been dipped in gold or silver.
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But the biggest complaints here revolve around bronze medals, some of which look straight up rusty.
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According to French news reports, the crafts people who were featured so prominently ahead of the games, who worked with the world famous French Mint, used a defective varnish.
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The Mint now says it's using a better, rust-proof chemical compound, and the IOC has apologized to the more than 100 athletes seeking replacements.
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Louis Vuitton's parent company, LVMH, known for luxury, hasn't commented, and lots of medalists are realizing that the most permanent reminder of your success might not be as permanent as you thought.
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Can you imagine that you've got some overbearing family member who's never impressed with you?
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You're like, you know what, I'm gonna show you my Olympic medal.
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You get it out of the box and it's just falling apart.
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I wish the episodes were a little longer, 45 minutes would be phenomenal.
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Midnight Owl spins singlehandedly, trying to double my workload, but you know what, I appreciate the vote of confidence.
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So thank you, I'm Brad Milky.
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I'll see you tomorrow.
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