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Defending Trump - March 23rd, Hour 2
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800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, now we've gone over the latest news of the day.
For the second straight day, the grand jury of Alvin Bragg in Manhattan, the Manhattan District Attorney, has decided don't bother coming in today.
There have been many reports now that there's total chaos inside of his office.
I started this week out and I thought, you know, over the weekend, I thought it was 99% in terms of a chance that Donald Trump was going to get indicted and probably arraigned.
I'm below, way below 50% now because clearly there has been a pause and for good reason, by the way, if you listen to, you know, even lawyers and pundits on liberal networks and liberal publications, I mean, they're all saying the same thing.
This is a horrible case.
You know, an unprecedented inquiry, Zero Hedge, put out there.
The Manhattan DA fired off a letter blaming Trump for the arrest rumors.
He actually said the letter only came after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day, and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene.
Sounds to me like Bragg is backing off his very tough stance that he's, quote, not going to be intimidated.
Anyway, this phony case continues to unfold, and it's amazing.
Rolling Stone put out many top New York City attorneys loathe Trump, but they don't like Bragg's chances.
Now, this is a guy as the DA in Manhattan.
When he has a jury trial, he's lost 49% of his cases.
He's not exactly the most incredible lawyer in the world to be handling this job.
But two major things came out this week.
And one has to do with this letter that we spent a lot of time on this program yesterday and on TV last night.
And this is from the counsel of Michael Cohn to the head of the FEC.
And it goes into great detail and specificity.
I read it all yesterday.
I won't read it again now.
But it had a big impact on the case.
And the other thing that happened is on Monday, Bob Costello went in with all the credibility in the world and contradicted everything that Michael Cohn was saying and called him a serial liar.
I'll play some of that in a second.
There is one other development that we're looking at and following on the show.
And this has now been reported on multiple websites, that we had Donald Trump's lawyer, Joe Takapina, is going to join us in a second on TV last night.
And if you're wondering how Bragg's case against Trump is unraveling so quickly, let me tell you something.
Joe Takapina last night was as fierce as any lawyer as I've ever seen.
I've known him for decades.
And so now there's an effort that apparently they are trying to disqualify Joe Takapina, saying, well, he had contact with Stormy Daniels back in 20, I think, 16 or 18, whenever it was.
I think it was 2018.
And there's an effort afoot by the left to get Joe Takapina off the case.
Joe Takapina joins us now.
How are you, sir?
Great, Sean.
How you doing?
Listen, wild horses could not get me away from this case.
And it's really completely a non-issue.
It's, you know, look, they don't want me in this case.
They don't want me near this case, I'm sure.
You know, I think they understand what I'm going to do to this case.
But the bottom line is I never spoke to Stormy Daniels.
I never met Stormy Daniels.
Yeah, she called my office to see if I'd be interested in representing her, like a lot of people do.
One of my associates sort of vetted the call, spoke to her, and then relayed to me the information.
And it went no further than that.
Bottom line is that doesn't.
They're trying to claim that you once said on an interview that there was attorney-client privilege.
Is that true?
I did.
You know what happened?
I did, but it doesn't make it an attorney-client privilege.
It was me sidestepping something.
So here's what happened.
You know, really when we were, I was on, I think, Don Lemon Show, which I guess that's what I get going on, Don Lemon Show.
And he, apparently, from Mike Abernatti, he had heard that I had been approached by Stormy Daniels and asked me that on the air.
So I sidestepped what was an unexpected question by a TV host by providing a response that it may lack clarity, but for the sake of clarity, I never spoke to her.
I never said I met with her.
I never said I spoke with her.
And what I said was, you know, my reference to attorney-client privilege really intended to terminate the inquiry because someone on Stormy Daniels' behalf had asked whether I would represent her.
And I didn't want to discuss the matter on national television like that because it wouldn't be appropriate anyway.
And even if there was for the purpose of that consultation, a turn of client privilege with my office regarding what she had said, that's a waste.
She wrote a book and discussed everything that she would have said to my associate.
I mean, we have an email.
There was nothing substantial.
It was all very superficial, but she's written a book.
But they claim in some reports that text messages were handed over.
You're saying they were not from you.
Text messages.
No, no.
They said email with some associate from my office, not for me.
I never emailed her, never text messaged her, never spoke to her, Sean.
I never met her.
There's no scenario where that's an attorney-client privilege situation that could get me bounced on the case.
And even if it were all true, and I did speak to her about that limited issue, which is not an issue in this case, by the way, it would only mean that I couldn't cross-examine her.
Doesn't mean I get to step down.
Okay, so it's just really much to do about nothing.
It's the, you know, the far left, the CNNs of the world, the MSNBCs of the world, trying to make something where there's nothing.
She didn't tell my associate or whoever she spoke to anything that has not been in the public domain.
So that rules out the issue of whether or not there's any attorney-client privilege.
If she were even a witness, she wasn't even called in the grand jury.
I don't think she's a relevant witness in this case.
Honestly, I have not even a 1% concern about that being an issue as much as they would love it to be an issue.
The last thing they want to see me doing is cross-examining their witnesses in this case.
Let me ask you, why do you think the grand jury proceeding was canceled now for the second day in a row?
You know, it's just rank speculation.
I don't know.
I mean, it's been reported widely that there's chaos in that office.
I've heard from people, you know, who knows inside that office who are saying it's a circus atmosphere in there.
And I just don't know, Sean.
I mean, it really could be something that is a logistical thing, a scheduling thing, or it could be something more.
It could be someone finally sort of talking some sense into the VA and saying, what are you doing?
This is an unsustainable case.
There's no crime here.
Do not make out a crime in any way, shape, or form.
And I've been saying that since day one, Sean.
Well, all right, let me move on to my interview earlier this week on TV with Robert Costello.
And in the course of this, he said that Cole told, Cohn told him he paid Stormy Daniels on his own.
He told me he said after contemplating suicide that Cohn told him he doesn't have anything on Trump.
He was very specific.
He says that he volunteered information because the DA's office wasn't going to cover information that he wanted to give.
And then he says during the two-hour meeting, Cohn would rant that he would do whatever he had to do to never spend a day in jail.
Listen to this part.
And I especially made one point.
I pointed out to them that during that first two-hour meeting, Michael Cohn, who, as I said before, was pacing back and forth, would suddenly stop in the middle of whatever he was talking about and turn and point his finger at us and say, I want you guys to understand, I will do whatever the F I have to do.
I will never spend a day in jail.
He said that at least 10 to 20 times during that two-hour period.
It was a bizarre mantra, but it made it clear to us that Michael Cohn was saying, I will lie, cheat, steal, shoot someone.
I will never spend a day in jail.
Well, what happened?
He did spend more than a day in jail.
And who does he blame?
Not himself, even though counts one through seven related to times before he even met Donald Trump.
So he blames Donald Trump.
He's a convicted felon, an admitted liar.
And I'm listening to this guy who has all the credibility in the world.
I think that has to be in Alvin Bragg's mind, knowing that that attorney will contradict every single thing that Michael Cohn may say in trial.
A star witness.
Without question.
And then when you add to it the letter from the law firm that was unearthed yesterday, which is even equally devastating and corroborates everything Bob Costello was saying about the, you know, about the issue regarding the SEC, the Federal Election Committee, where the law firm represents it on behalf of their client, Michael Cohen, that the transaction was made by himself.
He was not reimbursed for that transaction by Trump organization or the Trump campaign.
And, you know, it takes it, it was not a campaign contribution.
That's what, you know, that's what they said in that letter.
So that's a federal agency.
So if that's a lie, that's another felony in a five-year count that Michael Cohen is staring down the barrel of.
Well, let me ask you: have the statute of limitations, as Jonathan Turley's been arguing, have they run out on both issues?
On a misdemeanor for sure, for sure.
That's two years.
If they cobble a felony together by adding two misdemeanors, saying one was made to cover up the other, which is, you know, just it would be really, really an abuse of prosecutor discretion.
This whole case would be if they brought it.
But, you know, then there's going to be some calculations that need to be done because there was a tolling of one year and 45 days, Sean, by Governor Cuomo at the time during the COVID period of criminal matters.
So, you know, they'd have to do some math on that.
It's very, very close, though, no matter what.
It's very close.
That's one of several legal arguments.
Obviously, we'd have a selective and targeted prosecution argument to be made here.
This case was put in the grand jury by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office more than two years ago, put in the Stormy Dannis case, and then they took it out.
Initially, they thought it had to do with a tax deduction being taken.
When they realized President Trump didn't take a tax deduction for this, they were like, oh, okay, that's not the case.
And they pulled it out, which is mind-boggling that it's being put back in.
And this is what we're talking about here.
I mean, you know, understand this.
This was a nuisance settlement, a civil settlement made from an incident that occurred now 17 years ago.
How common are these nuisance lawsuits settled like this with NDAs?
Every day, every day.
I mean, if you had a venture guest, for example, over the years, even before Bragg became the Manhattan DA, I would assume that office probably has their own NDAs.
Would that be a good guess on my part?
Yeah, it probably would be, Sean.
It probably would be.
But the bottom line is that's a common legal maneuver.
You know, you get a nuisance settlement to resolve an issue and you make something that could be personally embarrassing to yourself, to your family, go away.
It had nothing to do with the campaign.
And that's what Cohen said when he pledged guilty.
So you understand it's something that was done with personal funds.
Personal funds.
Well, let me go to the letter then.
And this is from Michael Cohn's attorney at the time.
It's dated February 8th, 2018.
His counsel is Stephen M. Ryan.
It's to the FEC.
It's addressed to Jeff Jordan at the time.
And he says, I'm writing on behalf of Michael Cohn in response to your letter dated January 30th, 2018.
He said, in a private transaction in 2016, before the U.S. presidential election, Mr. Cohn used his own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Ms. Stephanie Clifford.
Neither the Trump organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford and neither reimbursed Mr. Cohn for the payment directly or indirectly.
Now, contrary to the allegations in the complaint, which are entirely speculative, neither Mr. Cohn nor Central Consultants, LLC, made any in-kind contributions to Donald J. Trump for President Inc.
or any other presidential campaign committee.
Mr. Cohn has not been a government employee during any of the relevant time period.
The payment in question does not constitute a campaign contribution or expenditure.
And therefore, the FEC lacks jurisdiction over this matter.
And the complainants have not and cannot present any evidence to the contrary.
Accordingly, the complaint should be dismissed.
Now, if that's not exculpatory, I don't know what is.
This is Michael Cohn's attorney writing this.
Yeah, it's unbelievable.
And so that means that's what he told his attorneys.
And this is, and this is 2018.
I mean, this is, you know, close in time for the period where he pled guilty.
It is unbelievable.
And again, what this also means is that he, if this is not true, then he lied.
I mean, if this is true, if this letter is accurate, then he lied to Congress, okay?
Which is another felony.
I mean, this guy's stacking up felonies like a champion.
He's really, he's really got.
Yeah, but he's a liberal now, so it's okay.
He won't get charged.
Only conservatives get charged for jaywalking and spitting on the sidewalk.
Sean, he was, there was no one who wanted to be on TV more than Michael Cohn to say how great Donald Trump was.
What a great president, what a great man, what a great boss, what a great client, what a great everything.
I mean, every night.
And if you said anything contrary, he would start a personal attack on you.
You know, the funny part is no one would give him an audience at the time with credibility.
MSNBC used to mock him, CNN used to mock him.
Now he's like, like he's like a guy.
He's become the new Michael Avenatti.
I mean, that's really what he's become.
And we know where he's sitting right now, right?
We certainly do.
All right.
I have two more important questions.
I don't want to take up all your time.
And I know you will be on Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on Fox.
Also, we're doing an audience show again tonight.
Former Vice President Mike Pence will be in studio tonight for tickets.
They're free.
Hannity.com if you're interested.
What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
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Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Navok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
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I quick break more with the president's attorney on the Manhattan case, Joe Takapina on the other side.
I have a very important question to ask him.
Then we'll get to your calls, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All this horrific economic news, including the prediction by JP Morgan, that sadly we are beyond the tipping point on all of this.
That is not good news for the American people that are already struggling mightily.
Anyway, Joe Takapina, more with him next than your call straight ahead as we continue.
All right, we continue with President Trump's attorney, Joe Takapina, for the second day in a row.
The grand jury in Manhattan has been canceled.
I wanted to ask you one more question.
We'll get into more of this tonight when you're on TV.
I want to play candidate Alvin Bragg running a campaign to go after one man, one company, and one family.
That man is Donald Trump.
That company is the Trump organization.
That family is the Trump family.
Listen.
A lot of people are wondering, whoever has this job, are they going to convict Donald Trump?
Look, that is the number one issue.
I'm the candidate in the race who has the experience with Donald Trump.
I was the chief deputy in the attorney general's office.
We sued the Trump administration over 100 times.
It'd be hard to argue with the fact that that'd be the most important, most high-profile case.
And I've seen him up front and seen the lawlessness that he can do.
And you believe it should happen.
I believe we have to hold them accountable.
All right.
So there you have a candidate, and like Letitia James as well, the AG in New York State, running a campaign to go after one man, one family, one organization.
Now, that doesn't sound like equal justice under the law to me, Joe Takapina.
That doesn't sound like equal application of our laws.
That sounds like prosecutors that have determined they want to go after an individual and find the crime later.
That to me is political persecution, not prosecution.
You know, when a candidate for any office talks about a target before they get into a law enforcement position, it should send troopers down anyone's spine.
Letitia James did it.
She campaigned.
She was a private citizen campaigning that she's going to get Trump.
How did she know?
How did she, she had no access to evidence at that point?
The same thing Alan Bray just said.
I heard that just now.
I was like, I'm shocked, literally shocked.
I mean, he's basically saying when I become a prosecutor, which is the chief law enforcement officer in that county, okay, I'll go after him.
I've gone after him before.
How do you know?
What that says is, I have the person.
I will find the crime.
And, Sean, in this country, we don't do that.
That's what they did in Nazi Germany.
They did it in Russia and China.
You target an individual that you don't like for political reasons.
Show me the man.
I'll show you the crime.
You got it.
And that's what I just heard, which is shocking.
What's even more shocking is I donated money to his campaign.
I think you need your money back.
That's the irony there.
I wanted to hold you just for that one question.
I know you've been very generous with your time.
You're going to be joining us tonight.
We have a live audience show.
You will be there.
Former Vice President Mike Pence will be there in studio.
And I think this case is falling apart.
We'll know in the days to come.
Joe Takapina, we really appreciate you being with us.
Thanks, son.
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All right, let's get to our busy phones here.
Chad is in the free state of Texas.
Chad, how are you?
Glad you checked in.
What's going on?
A whole lot is going on, Sean.
It's always great and lucky to get through the busy phone lines there at your show.
You're my top six favorite of all time.
Wait, top six?
You got to do one more than the top five.
So you're not.
Dan, oh, man, I don't even want a nose ahead of me.
Thanks a lot.
No, no.
You're my top 400 talk show hosts in the country.
I really appreciate it.
Thanks, man.
So my top six is President Donald J. Trump.
Yeah.
You, George Strait, Tor Aikman, Ric Flair, and Mike Monato.
That's my.
You know what?
I'm cool with that list.
I like everybody on the list.
So we're good with no problem anymore.
Okay, I'm your number one talk show host.
That's all I wanted to hear.
You could have said it that way, and we wouldn't have had this diversion.
But go ahead.
What's on your mind?
You are.
I've been listening to you for 12 years every day.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
You know what?
You make this show possible.
You're welcome.
Very welcome.
So this whole charade, once again, who is it against?
One man, one family, one organization, Trump organization.
Now, isn't it amazing?
Trump organization is still going on and thriving, even without him, with him being a president and now whatever involvement he had of not being president.
But this district attorney bragged, 100% politically driven and motivated case.
So Democrats, so they preferred to say hush money, not an NDA.
But you said it, and you've been saying it the last number of days.
Every single day, thousands and thousands of non-disclosure agreements.
By the way, it's only hush money for Republicans.
For Democrats, they're called non-disclosure agreements, NDAs.
Yeah, I mean, because it sounds more sinister.
It's hush money.
You know, it sounds more sinister.
It sounds more sinister because remember, for a Democrat, it's guilty until proven innocent, not innocent until proven guilty.
So can you imagine how many non-disclosure agreements that have been conducted by whatever politician of a Democrat, of a senator, governor, or a president?
I mean, heaven forbid.
A couple of more things here, Sean.
Lead star witness is a longtime pathological liar, Michael Cohen, $130,000 paid to aka Stormy Daniels, non-from the Trump organization, not from Donald Trump himself.
And at the time, to boot to how illegitimate he is, when this was all arising back in, remember the statue of limitations when this was going on?
Who was her counsel?
Michael Avenatti.
So you're really telling me all of this with the pathological liars that Michael Cohen is.
Michael Avenati, the disgraced disbarred attorney.
Speaking of disbarred attorney, I think him and Bill Clinton have something in common with that.
Last thing I'm going to say on this, Sean, something I want to always like to leave it with a little bit of sincere humor.
Now, this is a disclaimer.
I'm not saying this is Donald Trump's legal team, but could you imagine this legal team for Donald J. Trump, the individual you've had on for the past couple of days and tonight?
And also, could you imagine if it was him plus Jay Seculo plus Greg Jarrett plus Leo.
Leo 2.0.
Terrell.
And last but not least, can you imagine if he had Vincent Loguada Gambini on his leg?
I'm a big fan of my cousin Vinny.
Well, look, you obviously understand this, and you're clearly a very informed listener.
You know, one of the things that I'm so happy about and proud of is the people that listen to this show are some of the most well-informed people in the country because the information we give out on a daily basis on radio and television, you're not going to get elsewhere.
I mean, the media has been borderline orgasmic over the potential indictment of Donald Trump.
You know, remember Rush years ago would do a gorbasm, the love, the feeling of Mikhail Gorbachev.
It's the same thing.
I mean, they have been out of their minds.
Even Howard Stern said something about MSNBC, like enough already.
I got it.
You hate Donald Trump.
You want him to be indicted.
This case, though, is falling apart.
Look, when I started this week after the weekend, what did I say?
I said, you know, all weekend long, all my sources, I felt it was inevitable and it was going to happen.
Then when I came on the air on Tuesday, I said, you know what?
I'm now to about 72% and falling rapidly.
Now with two days in a row with the grand jury proceeding canceled, I'm now down to, and last night I was 50-50.
I'm now down to odds are it won't happen.
And Bragg's comments in particular saying, well, Donald Trump created this expectation of an arrest.
That tells me that they are very afraid, and they should be.
And a lot of things happened this week.
And as usual, we're in the middle of all of it.
It's always, in my life, it's a shift show, Adam's shift show, just to be clear to people.
And, you know, this interview that I had with Bob Costello was devastating to Alvin Bragg's case.
This letter that we got a hold of, and I believe we printed first.
Maybe others did.
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure we did.
And that's a letter to the FEC and a gentleman by the name of Jeff Jordan.
And it was written by Stephen M. Ryan, counsel for Michael Cohn from February of 2018.
It was devastating.
It is exculpatory.
So they don't know what to do.
All the reports of chaos within the Manhattan DA's office, I guarantee, are 100% accurate.
Sean, this also could be calculated on the Democrat side because of the whole Adam Ship show of what's going on to this country.
This is more stuff on their end to defer what's going on in this country.
I'm going to put a lid on it.
To close, Sean, on your television side, it's not football season, but you still throw a pretty nice spiral to your audience.
I do.
I throw out a whole box of footballs every night.
Okay, if this could happen, it will make my day.
So the greatest of all time, the GOAT Tom Brady, has got a little bit more time on his hands.
Can you imagine if Sean Hannity, Sean Hannity is the Rush Limbaugh, the late Rush Limbaugh would say, if you could get Tom Brady.
Sean Hannity, he dropped the golden EIB microphone.
By the way, I miss him so much.
I really do.
I loved him.
He was so great for the country.
But anyway, go ahead.
My radio lineup when he was still in his heyday, what have you, before he got sick with cancer, was him for three hours.
Not every day, but most days.
Him for three, you for three.
And Mark Levan, get off the phone, you big dope.
Get off my phone, you creep.
Can you imagine if you got Tom Brady to come on your show to do sports and culture, which you do, and maybe get a little bit of, what are you looking for?
You know, he's got the Fox positioning.
I'd love to put Tom Brady on.
I'm a fan of Tom Brady's.
You know, I don't like the fact I saw the interview with Giselle, his wife.
I guess it's in Vanity Fair.
I have no interest in people's personal lives.
You know what?
I wish for both of them happiness.
I hope their kids are okay with all this.
It's always tough on kids when there's a divorce.
And it's bad karma to wish bad things on people.
I really, you know, the Christian part of me says, you know what?
You don't know what goes on behind the scenes, period.
Sean, I talked about this last fall on my own little platform.
I digress on that.
But can you imagine going through a divorce?
But then again, that the whole bleeping world knows you're going through a divorce.
Oh, it sucks.
All time.
It sucks.
The shoes that he was filling in.
All right.
You have taken a ton of time.
I can tell you will never stop talking, but we love that you called in.
You're a great caller, and we really appreciate it.
What did you want to ask for?
You were going to ask me something.
If you can't get Tom Brady on, my number one of all time is Troy Aikman.
All right.
I'm going to try for Tom Brady.
I'll call my buddy Jim Gray.
Jim Gray does a podcast with Tom Brady every week.
And it would be a very friendly interview because I'm a fan.
I like Tom a lot.
He's definitely a GOAT.
And I think it's sad for Tampa that he's not playing this year.
Chad, got a run, man.
Appreciate it.
Michael is in the free state of Florida.
What's going on, Michael?
How are you?
Glad you checked in.
Hey, thanks for taking my call.
So my question to you is about this peace treaty deal that China brokered between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
So what do you what's your take on that with central what I don't like that is unfolding and it's all due to Joe Biden being so compromised and weak.
That's what.
There's a reason I keep saying I want to know how much money Joe Biden did with the communist Chinese, him and his family, in business.
How much money did they make?
I want to know how much money they did in business in Russia and how much did they make.
I want to know the same about Ukraine and every other country they did business with.
But you have our two biggest geopolitical foes, China and Russia.
I'd say China by far number one, now aligning with Iran.
And the Saudis, you know, under Donald Trump, he put together a coalition of the U.S., Israel, the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the Saudis, and the Emirates.
And now the Saudis feel that their very existence is in jeopardy and because they view America as rudderless and without leadership and they're not wrong.
So they decided to go along with this deal because the only reason all those countries under Trump were aligned together was to stand against Iranian hegemony in the region.
And they didn't want a nuclear-armed Iran.
Now, Iran is on the verge of having nuclear weapons.
So I would describe this new alliance, this new world order, as a new axis of evil.
And as my mother used to say, God bless her soul, you know, will rule the day that we allowed this to happen.
Anyway, appreciate you being with us.
Thanks for a good call.
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