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We're going, however, to Sacramento on the road. Bill, a very good evening to you. Gavin Newsom

goes to China and in all the remarks that he made and he talked a great deal as you've told me.

So I had a lot of quotes here. This is the one I like best because I didn't understand it.

The governor says competition's good. It's healthy, but de-resking is very different than

decoupling. To me, it's nothing more than diversification. Help me, Bill. Am I supposed to

understand that? Good evening, too. Good evening, John Boy. That's sure something you don't find

in a fortune cookie, do you? But it's welcome to Gavin Newsom and do some, I'll let you want to

one where the governor likes to swallow dictionaries and spit them out in phrases that don't always

make sense. But here he is in China, basically saying, can't we all get along and can't we have

better relationships? And my contention here is that this is a governor who's probably swimming

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