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Somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-distrib building, we once again made contact with our leader, Mike Lodin.

Hello, America, Mark Lavin, our number 87-3-813-811, 87-7-3-813-811.

All right, we're going to do something very interesting, I think, today.

We're going to read out loud the transcript, because what's happening now is that the media are cherry picking from this transcript that the White House has released.

You're going to see how boring this whole thing is, and what a bunch of lies we're hearing from the usual suspects in the Democrat Party press.

And the Democrat Party.

And I want you to keep two things in mind when I read this to you.

Number one, I don't know of another time a president has released such a document to the public.

Number two, when the president was speaking with the president of the Ukraine, he had no idea this would be public.

So in other words, assuming his comments were confidential, if he wanted to say to the president of Ukraine, you know, go get Biden, he would have said so.

Oh, isn't that precious? The cable TV giving us the history of impeachment and resignation, really disgusting.

Virtually everything I said last night last night has been used on cable TV by various people.

So you'll be the first to hear this, and that'll be repeated again later today.

Starts the president. Congratulations on a great victory. He says to the new Ukrainian president, Zelensky.

We all watched from the United States. You did a terrific job. The way you came from behind somebody who wasn't given much of a chance, and you ended up winning easily.

It's a fantastic achievement. Congratulations. Zelensky. You're absolutely right, Mr. President. Excuse me.

We did win big and we worked hard for this. We worked a lot, but I would like to confess to you that I had an opportunity to learn from you.

We used quite a few of your skills and knowledge. We're able to use it as an example for our elections.

And yes, it's true that there were unique elections these were. We were in a unique situation that we were able to achieve a unique success.

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