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11 times here with me is always a Greenwald senior editor hello Abe hello John and

fresh from a afternoon outing at an Apple orchard with 25 billion people know

a Rothman or associate or high know-up. A lot of not not not not so many apples and

too many people that's the October Apple picking story here in the Northeast.

Well while Noah was laboring, fighting his way through the Apple orchard.

I blame Columbus by the way. If it was Indigenous peoples day, they borrow the last

piece of this. No one would show up without you saying fair enough. Okay well so this weekend

the president of the United States as is one decided to pick a bunch of fights on Twitter

and to create a couple of controversies out of things that were dying down as

controversies. There was a tweet about how no one gives them enough credit for

for the Puerto Rico hurricane efforts and then there was Mike Pence storming out

of the 49ers Indianapolis Colts game because there was kneeling and all the evidence

seems to indicate that he went to the game in order to storm out and then the big one.

Then there was saying that there's only one way to handle North Korea but not saying what

it is and then the big one was a series of tweets in which he personally attacked out

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