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Friday so there's a controversy yesterday the media mob they took it hook

line and sinker I guess it got started by Punch Bowl news founder Jake Sherman posting

on X about an alleged comment that Donald Trump made during this closed door meeting with House Republicans on Capitol Hill yesterday.

And he was talking about Milwaukee where the Republican National Convention is where we will be and said it's a horrible city. I guess that was the front cover of the

local paper today. Anyway that's what he quoted Trump is saying. Media was

not present for the meeting. I asked Mike Johnson last night he said I was

standing right next to him that's that he never said it. However anyway he

did not attribute the comment to any source even an anonymous one.

People from the likes of Congressman Jim Banks who we know a friend of the show slammed the

report is false.

I was in the meeting.

He never disparaged Milwaukee.

Other representatives said the same thing.

We're going to talk to one in just a second. Brian Style

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