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I got lots of thoughts this morning on this January 6th thing.

But I got a, I had to go find this because I was going to play you the audio.

And we had the audio and I needed you to, well, I'm going to play you the audio.

I'm going to play you the audio, Joe Biden on on jimmy kimmel we'll see how our audio

stacks up against how it actually aired but this is joe biden who says he's got a lot of things

done a lot of major good things he's having trouble communicating no question about it's a lot of

major things we've done but what we haven't done is we haven't been able to communicate it in a way that is, um, might let me say another way. Well, see, that's kind of perfect. Yeah, we haven't been able to communicate it. Look how the press has changed. Mm-hmm. Look how the press has changed. Oh, listen, I get it. I know you get, you overstand it.

You don't just understand it.

You overstand it.

But here's the deal.

One of the things is that it's very difficult now to have a, even with notable exceptions, even

the really good reporters, they have to get the number of clicks on nightly news.

So instead of asking a question, anyway, it's just everything gets sensationalized in ways that, but I'm convinced we can get through this.

We have to get through it.

And one of the things, look...

I'm going to take a break and then we'll talk a little bit more.

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