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🗓️ 25 June 2019
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| 0:00.0 | Right here is the agreement. It's very simple. It's right here. |
| 0:03.6 | And in here is everything you want to talk about. Done. Done. |
| 0:08.8 | We are on track this year to have more than a million people come across our border. |
| 0:16.6 | And for the first time ever, the vast majority are families that are bringing children with them |
| 0:22.6 | to exploit what we understand our loopholes in our asylum homes. |
| 0:27.6 | It will never be a country of any government. |
| 0:37.6 | Welcome to Trumpcast from Los Angeles, California. I'm Leon Krause. It's great to be with you once again. |
| 0:42.6 | President Trump launched his reelection campaign this week in Florida, |
| 0:46.6 | almost exactly four years after he began his improbable road to the presidency |
| 0:51.6 | in that bizarre rally inside Trump Tower in New York. |
| 0:55.6 | Back then, Trump seemed like a joke. His native is fear mongering. |
| 1:00.6 | Just an excuse for his lack of actual policy inside. |
| 1:04.6 | And yet four years later, here we are. Trump's obsessions haven't changed one bit. |
| 1:10.4 | The fight against immigration is still at the center of his political persona. |
| 1:14.4 | And Mexico, my country of origin, is still his villain of choice. |
| 1:19.4 | It has been a couple of weeks now since Trump successfully blackmailed the Mexican government |
| 1:24.2 | into granting unprecedented concessions on immigration. |
| 1:28.0 | He did it, I should add, and this is important by breaking an unwritten rule |
| 1:32.2 | of the bilateral relationship between Mexico and the United States. |
| 1:35.6 | He used trade, one part of the agenda, to force action on another part of the agenda, |
| 1:41.6 | migration and security, and make no mistake, the bullying worked. |
| 1:47.6 | Because Mexico had never before sent thousands of troops to the southern border. |
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