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If you want to be on the program, well, I got to be honest with you traveling on Friday

and having to do this show and also the Carathon down at WKV in Jacksonville.

I was a little bit concerned that we would get some real breaking news out of that Alaska summit.

And there was nothing.

There wasn't a lot.

In fact, I think it signals that the Trump administration's unwillingness to really talk about it suggests that nothing substantive really came other than a willingness to talk.

What I find bizarre, though, is the absolute tribalism that the president of the United States sitting down with Vladimir Putin was not a bad thing.

It was actually a good thing that the president of the United

States would sit with the president of Russia. And the attacks on Trump for sitting with

Vladimir Putin, I think, were just really, really bizarre stuff. It's ranked tribalism by the

left. I want to begin with this audio from David Brooks, who on Friday, I spent time with this

column in the New York Times about the class segregation in society, but just listen to this.

I think it was progress just that it happened.

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