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low. I don't think that means anything. And then that guy was allegedly found shot to death and there was a rule of suicide, but that seems low credibility. So here's my take. Do you remember my prediction about the JFK files? What were my predictions? My prediction was there'd be nothing new. There's a little bit new, people saying that the CIA was out of control, but we kind of knew that. I mea…

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There was no way to find out. Now my bigger question is, since this seems to be the case with all the government agencies, I think USAID, you couldn't really tell where the money was going, partly because it was going to this vast web of NGOs, but shouldn't there have been, and didn't you kind of think that the government was auditing itself as a routine basis? Didn't you assume that the government was keeping track of where their trillions of dollars were going? Apparently not. So don't you think we need some kind of auditing department or something? Because I don't know that DOGE is going to create an auditing fix. And how in the world did we not know this until now? Just amazing.

Anyway, so DOGE is at it. Meanwhile Trump is expected to sign an executive order to abolish the Department of Education. I feel like this is one of those Groundhog Day stories. How many times have we been told that Trump is going to abolish the Department of Education and then it doesn't happen? Maybe this time it will. I'll be optimistic, but I'd be a little cautious of this one. It just feels like we always go right to the edge. It's like, oh yeah, everybody's, we're going to ban this thing. Is it banned yet? No, no. Any minute. Any minute later. Well how about now? No, no, not now, but later. Later we're going to ban this. Totally ban it. How about now? Uh, no. So we'll see.

Meanwhile, designated liar Jamie Raskin, he's one of the Democrat designated liars. And why do I say designated liars? There's a small group of Democrats who apparently are willing to say absolutely anything, you know, just any outrageous lie. Whereas the more normal Democrats, you know, the ones you don't see on TV

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too much, they would be embarrassed. It's like, okay, you know, I can't say that in public. But Jamie Raskin, nothing will stop him from any lie in public. I guess he went on MSNBC yesterday and he claimed that Trump fired the director of the FAA and that's what caused the American Airlines collision in DC. Can you believe they even tried to get away with that? So it turns out that the FAA direct…

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