America, we got to get back to doing what's expected of us as free citizens in this democracy.

That means being tolerant, being respectful, staying informed, and being engaged.

I'm former Congressman Joe Walsh.

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Hey, Thursday, good morning, good afternoon, wherever you are on this planet.

Step back for a moment.

And let's take a look at the big picture.

You know, too often every day, right?

We're in hand-to-hand combat politically.

And we get down into the details.

And we get down into the scr and we get down into the scrum,

the daily scrum about any issue. It's really helpful every now and then to pull yourself back,

get up among the clouds and take like a 36,000-foot view of where we're at.

A bunch of Jeffrey Epstein's victims stood before the microphones in the cameras yesterday on Capitol Hill and they told

their stories. The victims, these young women who were girls, underage girls, when Epstein

and very, very powerful men raped them,

raped them when they were children.

So let's, let's, as they went on Capitol Hill yesterday

to begin to tell their story, because they should be the story, right?

The victims, the actual women who were abused and raped as young girls, they should be

the story.

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