Shadowing Practice: He’s getting impeached… - Learn English Speaking with Video
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There is so much corruption in Donald Trump's administration, it is difficult to keep track of it all,
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especially when the mainstream media ignores its actual responsibility to do so.
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But that is why we have to do this job.
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And it is why today, I don't want to talk about Kash Patel or Pete Hegseth.
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I don't want to talk about Todd Blanch or any of the other cronies that usually get the most attention.
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I want to talk about Marco Rubio, who is just as complicit in the
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is one specific story that is finally getting the attention that it deserves that will get him impeached, or at least people are calling for that right now.
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I want to get into it, but I want to connect it to this broader theme that is not being covered nearly enough, again, as all things aren't being covered nearly enough in this administration,
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and that's that Donald Trump is in such decline, not only is he doing crazy shit as we expect,
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but other people have been able to usurp the power of use Donald Trump as a puppet to carry out their goals.
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Rubio is one of them.
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That is what this story is about.
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And that's why this begins with Donald Trump not knowing the difference between Greenland and Iceland and Rubio being pressed on it.
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Speech in Davos.
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Here's what something the president said in Davos.
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I'm helping NATO until the last few days when I told them about Iceland.
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They loved me.
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They're not here for us on Iceland, that I can tell you.
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Our stock market took the first tip yesterday because of Iceland.
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So Iceland is already working cost us a lot of money.
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President repeatedly mistook Iceland for Greenland, right?
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We're not mad at Iceland.
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They haven't cost us any money.
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The president just mistook the two countries for each other, correct?
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Yeah, he meant to say Greenland, but I think we're all familiar with presidents that have verbal stumbles.
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We've had presidents like that before.
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Some made a lot more than this one.
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Nice try.
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Thanks.
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All right.
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Thank you.
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I thought he did well.
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Now, let me make one thing very clear.
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All of the people in Donald Trump's administration are covering up his cognitive decline.
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They do not want to talk about his dementia.
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They know that he has it because it is more beneficial to them to use Donald Trump,
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who has always been a person who would do and believe the last thing that anyone whispered in his ear.
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So now if you have something you want accomplished, you tell Trump, you tell him he's a great guy and it gets done.
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And Rubio, has seen a lot of his agenda, at least in the foreign policy sphere, carried out by this administration.
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And he's gotten to do a lot of whatever he wants, especially on a story that we kind of moved on from because Donald Trump started a war right after it.
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And that was Venezuela.
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And it is why this question from the beginning of the year is so important.
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Mr. Secretary, who is in charge?
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Are you running Venezuela right now?
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Thank you.
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Yeah, I mean, I keep people.. people fixating on that.
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Here's the bottom line on it is we expect to see changes in Venezuela, changes of all kinds, long term, short term.
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We'd love to see all kinds of changes, but the most immediate changes are the ones that are in the national interest of the United States.
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That's why we're involved here, because of how it applies and has a direct impact on the United States.
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Okay, we are not gonna be able to allow in our hemisphere a country
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that becomes a crossroads for the activities of all of our adversaries around the world.
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We just can't allow it.
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We military and in charge of its police department are openly cooperating with drug trafficking organizations.
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We can't we're not going to allow that.
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These are these things are direct threats to the United States.
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And we intend to use every element of leverage that we have to ensure that that changes.
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Whenever a member of the Trump administration does not answer a question in which the answer of yes, the honest answer would get them put in jail.
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You know that the answer is Because Donald Trump started this conflict.
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Donald Trump destabilized the country.
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Donald Trump said
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that we are going to be in charge to serve the interest of a couple of oil executives in America. But.
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largely probably because Marco Rubio wanted it.
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And so now Marco Rubio gets to do whatever he wants. And why?
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Because Donald Trump does not know what's going on.
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That is a fundamentally important fact about this administration, that Donald Trump does not know what's going on.
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So sure, he is the most destructive force in modern American history,
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but so are all of the other players around him who are using the increasingly concentrated executive power
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that he has created This story.. we're gonna get into should have Rubio impeached.
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Critics react with horror to insane revelations about Marco Rubio.
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Impeachable.
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Some critics of the Trump administration are reacting with horror to revelations
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that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been serving as the de facto ruler of Venezuela.
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According to a Saturday report in the New York Times, Rubio, for the last several months,
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has been acting informally as the viceroy of Venezuela ever since its recognized president, Nicolas Maduro, was abducted by the American military in January
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and brought to the U .S to face charges related to quote -unquote narco -terrorism.
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regular contact with the acting Venezuela president.
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Under current arrangements, the U .S.
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Treasury Department takes in revenue from Venezuela's exports, including its petroleum, and then disperses the money back to the country through its private banks,
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with strict conditions set by Rubio over what it can be spent on.
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In explaining the system, the Times likened it to parents handing out allowances to children, adding that it gives Rubio immense leverage over Rodriguez,
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who depends Elizabeth Saunders, professor of political science at Columbia University,
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described Rubio's power over Venezuela as insane, as well as derelict, unconscionable, and impeachable.
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It is impeachable what Rubio is doing.
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Do we not remember that this was the campaign in the administration
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that said it would get itself out of foreign affairs and
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that we didn't need endless wars to benefit the military -industrial complex or ExxonMobil and oil executives in America?
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Like, isn't that what they said?
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But no, these are the people who Donald Trump promised that if they gave him a billion dollars for his campaign, he'd make them rich.
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At least he's delivering on that promise to the wealthy guys.
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But remember, those are also the people who Marco Rubio is going to need to back him when he runs for president.
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J .D.
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Vance has tech.
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J .D.
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Vance has got the tech guys.
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Marco Rubio needs these guys.
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And is it any surprise that ever since Rubio has taken this little position, right, clearly an impeachable offense,
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what has happened with the donor class?
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A lot of the big money interests, they're like, we like this Rubio guy.
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Huh.
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Isn't that interesting?
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Now, sure, J .D.
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Vance is a goober and a loser, and he's got no charisma.
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I don't really think Marco Rubio is the most incredible political talent.
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If he was, he wouldn't have flamed out in the 2016 election.
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But suffice to say...
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Rubio What's going on, man?
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Like, is this why?
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Are these where the connections are coming from?
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All that is clear is that, again, Marco Rubio can do what he wants to.
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Why?
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Because Donald Trump...
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It doesn't work up there.
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And he's not asking questions.
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Even with his war on Iran currently, Donald Trump does not care.
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He doesn't care at all.
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He's called it boring.
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He said that building housing and the housing crisis that we face in America was a big yawn.
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A bipartisan bill historic would have been incredibly beneficial to Americans broadly.
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Donald Trump said it was a snooze fest.
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is the only thing that Republicans could have run on in the midterms.
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Donald Trump says not signing in.
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Do not want to talk about it.
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You are not allowed to talk about it either.
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Mike Johnson or John Thune.
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So it is Donald Trump who is fundamentally disinterested in everything that is happening.
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And if anything happens that isn't, you know, building a ballroom or making the reflecting pool worse, It is all of his other cronies usurping presidential power to do so.
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So that is what's happening with Rubio right now.
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because Donald Trump's brain is pudding.
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And that is crazy to me.
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And if it makes you feel as I do, which the only way I'm going to be able to get
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because you know what yeah i'm certainly going to need a
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need a little respite from all of this that's going down especially
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when rubio was confronted again on the reason he has all
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this power in this administration donald trump's clear cognitive decline
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which should result in the 25th amendment
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and what did he have to say a whole bunch of nothing he floundered
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and this is one of the best moments i've seen from
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a grilling of a cabinet secretary by a member of congress
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in a long time thank you secretary rubio for being here today you have been at multiple meetings with In a moment,
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I'm going to show you a video of one of these meetings.
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It is from last December.
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It's a cabinet meeting.
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I'm going to ask you to focus on President Trump and you will see that he is sleeping while you're talking.
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Please show the video.
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Products they make and what American farmers grow and produce has a fair shot to be sold around the world.
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On issue after issue, that's been the case.
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You talk about foreign aid reforms.
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This is not our money.
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This is taxpayer money.
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Secretary Rubio, have you been at more than one meeting?
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where President Trump has fallen asleep.
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That's false.
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That's false.
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I've never seen him fall asleep.
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On the contrary, the guy doesn't sleep, which is a big problem because he calls me at two in the morning.
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He calls me at five in the morning.
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And you know, I like to sleep a little bit, maybe not 12 hours or at least six.
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So, the other day he was at the Oval Office at 12 :30 PM.
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I don't know what you're talking about.
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I'm going to show you in a moment a video that shows you just lied to Congress.
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Oh, okay.
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So this is a video of a cabinet meeting literally from last month.
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where Donald Trump is sleeping while you're talking.
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Please show this video.
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A coalition of countries that line up behind the peace deal, behind the border peace, and it's still, every day is a challenge, but it's been driven personally by the president.
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It's the reason why we're involved in this whole Ukraine, Russia conflict.
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That's not our war.
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It's not the president's war.
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This war started, it never would have happened if you'd been president.
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But this war is going on and the president is trying to end it.
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You are literally talking about issues of war and peace, and Donald Trump is sleeping right next to you.
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No, he's not.
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If Donald Trump cannot stay awake at these important meetings where the cameras are rolling, Imagine what he's like when the cameras are not there.
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So I'm gonna ask you, have you been at classified meetings where Donald Trump has fallen asleep, or had trouble staying awake?
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- I've never been at any meeting where you're fine.
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And the things you're showing me now, he was not falling asleep.
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So you're lying again, you're lying consistently to Congress.
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You're lying to Congress, Secretary Rubio.
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So I'm going to show you another video in a moment.
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the president's inability the president's inability to stay awake on the job has caused other countries to perceive him differently.
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They mock him.
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They see he is weak and he is feeble.
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This is a video of a French news channel talking about Donald Trump falling asleep at a Memorial Day ceremony.
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please show this video.
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Well, mark a video
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that appears to show Donald Trump falling asleep at a Memorial Day ceremony this Monday has been circulating heavily online.
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And internet users have a lot to say about it.
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It's also reignited rumors about the state of the US president's health.
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Now, in the video, in social media, users say that Trump is fighting sleep whilst he listens to the speech given by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
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and that his eyes appear to be closed for a large portion of the ceremony. be traded.
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Confronted to their face with sleeping Donald Trump because he is in decline and it needs to be called out.
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We are certainly going to on this show.
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If you want to support that, as always, you can hit that subscribe button, leave a like on this video.
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If you stuck around in the end, drop a blue heart in the comments.
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Keep on fighting, y 'all.
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Don't let them silence you.
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And until next time.
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I'll see you soon.
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Common Pronunciation Traps
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Grammar in this video
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|---|---|
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| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | If he was, he wouldn't have |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have been · has always been · has seen |
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