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I'm Adam Johnson.

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you are about to pop a fucking blood vessel because of the recent reports we've been seeing

namely I'm going to say in CNN, although that's not it, but the recent right along

Copaganda that we are seeing in CNN lately and I know that there's also that unbelievable

Chris Cuomo piece that we need to talk about, but Adam, lay it all out for us.

Why did we need to talk today?

Yeah, so we're going to limit the focus on the recent crime panic to just one day in

the life of CNN prime time, which is on CNN's Jake Tapper show, noted friend of the show,

Jake Tapper, who we probably make fun of more than anyone because he's horrible.

And Andrew Cuomo's brother Chris Cuomo, aka Fredo Cuomo, there was clearly a memo sent

out by Jeff Zucker, they had to see it in that on the day Biden announced his, they were

going to try to flank from the right and own the tough on crime thing.

Boy, where have we seen this before?

Joe Biden, of course, the author of the original crime bill to his credit completely consistent.

Nothing changed.

He is now saying that he's been $350 billion of the pandemic, many states and cities on

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