Episode 119 – FAIL： Anonymous ＂Senior Trump Official＂ Author Revealed...As Low-Level Bureaucrat. America's Economy is BACK! Girl Scouts Get a Taste of Cancel Culture.
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Summary
The White House has failed to challenge the allegations made in a book written anonymously against the President, and has refused to challenge them on their merits. Why would the White House be willing to allow someone anonymously to make accusations against the president? And why should anyone continue to pay for their opinion when they're an obvious liar?
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you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not
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be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended
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with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates
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welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news well we finally know
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who anonymous is was it a cabinet official no was it a senior white house official no it was a
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bureaucrat off in agency land at the department of homeland security a guy called miles taylor
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here's what miles taylor said to anderson cooper when confronted with the question are you anonymous
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there was an op-ed there was a book by someone calling themselves anonymous are you aware of who
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that is i'm not look and i that was a a parlor game that happened in washington dc of a lot of folks
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trying to think of uh who that might be i've got my own thoughts about who that might be but uh
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you know i'm not you're not a president and i certainly don't want to uh i i wear a mask for
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two things anderson uh halloweens and uh pandemics so no so obviously miles taylor was lying then and
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with a bit of panache saying he doesn't wear masks of anonymity he was then confronted by chris cuomo
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just last night why should anyone continue to pay for your opinion when you're an obvious liar take a
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listen all right uh first what matters most uh certainly to me you lied to us miles you were
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asked in august if you were anonymous here on cnn with anderson cooper and you said no now why should
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cnn keep you on the payroll after lying like that chris it's a great question and i'll just give you the
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blunt truth when i published a warning i said in the book that if asked i would strenuously deny
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i was the author and here's the reason because the things i said in that book were ideas that i wanted
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donald trump to challenge on their merits we have seen over the course of four years that donald trump's
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preference is to find personal attacks and distractions to pull people away from criticisms
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of his record i wrote that work anonymously to deprive him of that opportunity and to force him
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to answer the questions on their merits and i'll tell you what happened chris the end result is the
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president couldn't he failed to deny what was in that book and in fact to this day the white house
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has failed to challenge the narratives that were in that book or the narratives that i've explained in
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my own name over the past four months speaking out against the president so when asked by anderson
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whether i was anonymous during that time period i said what i was going to do i temporarily denied
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it but i've always said i would ultimately come out under my own name but that said i owe anderson
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cooper a beer i owe him a mea culpa and the same thing for other reporters who at that time period asked
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me are you anonymous and and i said no because i wanted that work to stand on its own two legs and
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deprive the president of an opportunity to do one more personal attack to distract from his record but look
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i'm here tonight to say that was me and i hope people challenge me on those accounts and i hope
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the white house looks back at those accounts and and looks at them and tries to actually say whether
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they're true or not because there's an army of people who now come out chris who will validate them
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we will go through what the white house said in response we will go through your time there
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and what mattered in terms of what you were trying uh to hold off for america's collective national
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security but you know what the problem is with having lied is that now you are a liar and people
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will be slow to believe you when you lied about something as important as whether or not you wanted
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to own this miles taylor's answer to chris cuomo is absurd the notion that he wanted to deprive
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the president the ability to question the motives of the individual who was making these claims
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individual bias is something that this president has been a victim of of course he has attacked peter
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overstruck andrew mccabe comey's clapper these people who lied about him and who manufactured
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the russia hoax and then some would say beyond that the bureaucrats who created this ukraine saga
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that resulted in impeachment the president has a reasonable distrust of some of these deep state
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actors and for miles taylor to be unwilling to stand behind his own claims in his op-ed seems to suggest
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the frailty of the factual allegations and the likelihood that this is all made up all just to
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try to raise his profile and get his next television contract what a shame and i would suggest the new
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york times has a whole lot of egg on their face why would they allow someone to publish these accusations
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against the president anonymously you see they they give the emperor mater of credibility of senior status
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of access because when they say anonymous you don't really know who that is it really could have been
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you know someone a lot closer to the president which would have said a lot more than just this loser
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lackey bureaucrat so while miles taylor doesn't come out of this looking good at all i think the new
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are joe biden's voters getting buyers remorse sinclair broadcasting has the story i picked it up from
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wear channel 3 news google searches how to change my vote seem to be trending more and more and they
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seem to be trending in states that really matter florida pennsylvania wisconsin arizona tennessee and
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virginia and a lot of the google searches regarding you know how do i change my vote or can i change
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my vote are directly linked to users who are also searching hunter biden and hunter biden emails and
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hunter biden laptop so with tens of millions of voters having already cast their ballot you see how
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these late breaking charges can really create a searing impression on the minds of the electorate truth
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is there is no way to change your vote once a ballot is cast it's cast and while i wish that
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this information about the biden's had come out sooner so that the whole country could make their
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decision based on the evidence before them it does seem that it's cutting through that it's having an
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impact that voters care about the deep corruption in the biden family many may want to change their vote
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they won't be able to but for those who haven't voted i think this is very significant
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the american economy is coming back baby we knew it would happen we knew we would see the great
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american economic revival because the fundamentals of our economy incentivizing investment and bringing
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capital back to our shores those remain strong cnbc has the story u.s gdp booms at 33.1 percent rate in
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q3 better than expected now the dow jones was expected to see a 32 percent gdp accelerated annualized
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increase so that expectation was beat and a surge in business and residential investment along with stronger
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consumer activity helped the economy so what you're seeing here with that consumer spending i think is
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pent-up demand uh and a desire to get going and uh with the residential activity home buying and the
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like it's easy to understand how in the initial months of the coronavirus folks might pause they might
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be more cautious but if you need to move you need to move if you need a home you need a home if your job
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changed or relocated maybe that gives you opportunities and as you see the coronavirus impacting
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the way in which people participate in the workforce through teleworking uh through distance working
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you're able to i think also see a change in where people live if in 2021 people have more choice over
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where they live relative to their job than they did in 2019 that in and of itself can create more
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home buying more commercial activity more churn in the real estate market because people may not want
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to live right where their job is they might want to live somewhere else and while coronavirus has
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certainly taken its toll on our country and our families and the economy it could lead to this
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dynamic in real estate that creates the activity that helps pull ourselves out of one of the most
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challenging economic times our country has encountered but it's great to see us on the upswing beating
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expectations doing better let's hope we keep the good times rolling
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vandalism violence hatred it continues to be spread by the radical left and we see more and more
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examples emerging on our college campuses buckalupo.com is a great website and they're breaking news that
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at the university of miami here in the state of florida college republicans put up a trump
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pence sign it was then vandalized repeatedly and then removed by a faculty member in fact within hours
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of the college republicans pro trump sign being put up you had students and others taping signs
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to it saying white supremacists get off my campus the university of miami president julio frank putting out
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a statement that the banner had been approved and authorized and that these acts of vandalism were
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a departure from the mutual respect that is important for us to have as human beings and that he would
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suggest they have on the university of miami's campus i'm disappointed that a faculty member took
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it upon themself to be able to remove the sign if anything i'd leave the sign up you know i remember
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in one of my first campaigns for public office i had put up signs and some folks who didn't like
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me went and lit them on fire and so there was these like half charred signs with my name on them
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and i had supporters call me up saying oh you've got to you know correct and repair these signs
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and frankly i left them up because i wanted my community to see what the backers of my opponents
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were willing to do what they thought was okay when in fact we don't condone justify or support
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any type of vandalism or or in cases of violence which we've reported on before you know we reported
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on the story of the women's march where a woman showed up with a trump banner and was assaulted
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and here students just show up with a trump banner and they're labeled white supremacists and told to
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get off the campus we have to be able to listen to each other and disagree with each other without
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trying to label each other and simply rob one another of the ability to contribute to the national
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conversation let's hope things get better at the university of miami and college campuses everywhere
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if you're in your private aircraft don't fly it over a trump rally without permission that happened
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in arizona yesterday the president holding a rally and f-16 fighter jets actually had to send out
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flares to get the attention of an aircraft that had entered the restricted area according to the hills
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ellen mitchell the aircraft that was violating that prohibited airspace was non-responsive to initial
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contact requests from norad but after the f-16s shot those flares they sure got the attention of
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that aircraft and they were able to escort it safely outside of the restricted area without incident the
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president took notice it sort of looked like a military flyover made mention the fact that they'd put on
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a little display but in fact it was not a display it was action to ensure the safety of the president
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and all who attended his rallies thanks to the great folks at the united states air force and we hope that
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in these final days both candidates are able to have great events without incident without any threat
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without any risk to the americans attending and participating in our political process
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i love girl scout cookies thin mints and samoa's are my favorite but i will never buy a box again
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girl scouts of america had originally put out a post congratulating justice amy coney barrett for being
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the fifth woman appointed to the united states supreme court since its inception then after ayanna presley
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congresswoman from the squad and others engaged in their typical cancel culture bs criticizing the
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girl scouts saying oh you know amy coney barrett represents the opposite of what the girl scouts stand
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for they caved they removed the post so not even the girl scouts of america are willing to stand up
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to the cancel culture when all they did was congratulate a woman on her confirmation all women in america
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should be proud of amy coney barrett all americans should be proud of her i know i am she was masterful
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in her confirmation hearings she was unshakable in her convictions in her faith in defending the life
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she had led properly and here you have an organization purportedly existing to develop the values ambitions and
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skills of women just straight up abandoning one at the first sign of criticism online this is what
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the future looks like if we don't start standing up for what we believe unapologetically where if you
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say not even the wrong thing but the right thing but it offends the wrong people that somehow you're
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de-platformed delegitimize destroyed by the online mob i would have expected more from the girl scouts of
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america it's deeply disappointing that they believe that their non-political posture means that they
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can't support encourage congratulate women if those women don't just totally surrender to the woketopia
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of the radical left very disappointing i guess maybe i won't add those few extra pounds during girl scout
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cookie selling season but i sure wish that more institutions in our country would stand up for
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their own beliefs and for their own stated purposes president emmanuel macron in france is announcing
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a second national lockdown now in italy and in other places where they've discussed these possibilities
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you've seen a very negative reaction from their people folks want to be able to make their own choices
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and these lockdowns are very unpopular but macron making the decision that beginning on friday until
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at least december one schools will be open but non-essential businesses will close the new measures
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which will come into force friday will mean people have to stay in their homes except to buy essential
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goods seek medical attention or use their daily one-hour allocation of exercise cafes restaurants and
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shops will shut down unless they are deemed to be selling essential goods such as supermarkets and
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pharmacies so enjoy your one hour of government allotted exercise in france more lockdowns coming via macron
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we've got regeneron results and they're quite promising marketwatch.com's claudia
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asis has the story regeneron trial coven 19 drug cocktail cuts virus load and more people shares of
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regeneron rose more than three percent in the extended session wednesday after the company's experimental
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antibody cocktail significantly reduced novel coronavirus levels without the need for further medical
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attention including hospitalizations and er visits for those who were engaged in the trial this is a
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quote from regeneron's president and chief scientific officer george yankopoulos we continue to see the
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strongest effects in patients who are most at risk for poor outcomes due to high viral load ineffective
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antibody immune response at baseline or pre-existing risk factors we're hopeful that these trials will
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persist and that the drug will be available to all americans suffering coronavirus thanks for
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