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Let's go to Shelley in Long Island.

Shelly, how you doing?

Hey, good morning, Mark. Love the show. And you always seem to make the world okay, even when it feels like it's falling apart.

All right? What's a matter? What's falling apart?

Well, I heard on a talk show yesterday that a high-ranking official was saying that Trump is being deceived by his staff about the Russia-Ukraine situation.

And my question to you is, do you think that's so?

Do you think Trump knows actually everything that's really going on?

Or do you think the deceit is there?

Well, you've had a few years of looking at Donald Trump.

Does he look like a guy who doesn't know what's going on?

Yeah, I agree with that, but why would this high-ranking official see such a thing?

Well, you've got to remember, a lot of these people, they just want to get rid of this guy.

They want to, it's a club. They want the club to run things. They don't want outsiders coming in. You know, for a million years, they always talked about, if only we could get the great, great leaders in the private sector to come be in government, like Lee Iacocca or Jack Welch, or, well, now they got one and he's not part of of the club and he's busting up their little racket there and they don't like it so they've been going to this

for eight years now with Trump about you know he doesn't read he doesn't listen he doesn't

this he doesn't that he does it they just make up all this crap he's being deceived

his own staff hates him.

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