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I can't get more explicit than May.

Let's just say it may.

It's Tuesday, January 8th, 2019 from Slated,

the GIST I'm Mike Pasca.

So Donald Trump will be giving, or when you hear this,

will have given his speech in prime time.

I think the news that the networks acquiesce to this

bothered me more than it should have.

Now, in a moment, you're going to hear me speak

with NPR's David Fokenflick.

And you know, it's very therapeutic.

I get all my angst out.

Actually, it's more factual than anything.

One of the things we talk about is the idea that

the consequence of the speech might not be so dire.

And there is a body of research about this.

In 1993, George Edwards, the director of the Center

for Presidential Studies at Texas A&M,

built a whole program around presidential rhetoric

and he began studying it.

And what he found was later written in his book called

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