Nick Reiner Appears In Court, MIT Professor Murdered, FCC Chair Carr on the Hill： AM Update 12⧸18
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Nick Reiner appeared briefly in court yesterday morning after being charged with murdering his parents, legendary director Rob Reiner and wife Michelle Reiner. He was originally set to appear on Tuesday, but was not medically cleared for transfer from the jail to the courthouse in Los Angeles.
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There are very, very complex and serious issues that are associated with this case.
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Nick Reiner appearing in court for the first time after being charged with murdering his parents,
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Well, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr in the hot seat on the Hill.
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Senators grilling him over his role in the Jimmy Kimmel suspension.
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Nick Reiner appearing briefly in court yesterday morning after being charged with murdering his parents, legendary director Rob Reiner and wife Michelle.
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32-year-old Nick, originally set to appear on Tuesday, but was not medically cleared for transfer from the jail to the courthouse in Los Angeles.
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The judge allowing cameras in the courtroom, but saying they are not allowed to show Nick, who appeared in court wearing an anti-suicide smock.
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Nick waiving his right to a speedy arraignment.
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His criminal defense attorney, Alan Jackson, addressing reporters outside the courthouse yesterday morning.
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This is a devastating tragedy that has befallen the Reiner family.
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As we all recognize that, our hearts go out to the entire Reiner family.
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There are very, very complex and serious issues that are associated with this case.
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They need to be thoroughly but very carefully dealt with and examined and looked at and analyzed.
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We ask that during this process you allow the system to move forward in the way that it was designed to move forward.
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Not with a rush to judgment, not with jumping to conclusions, but with restraint and with dignity and with the respect that this system and this process deserves and that the family deserves.
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So with that, we are set for January 7th for an arraignment.
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Substantively, we'll be back for an arraignment in the same department on the 7th of January.
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Nick will remain in custody without bail at least until that next hearing.
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Prosecutors charging Nick with two counts of first-degree murder with a special circumstance of multiple murders,
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an enhancement allowing prosecutors to seek life without parole or the death penalty.
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Nick also charged with a special allegation of using a dangerous and deadly weapon,
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that being the knife he allegedly used to stab his parents to death.
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L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hockman saying on Tuesday prosecutors have not yet decided if they will pursue the death penalty,
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but will take surviving family members' wishes into consideration.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, issuing a moratorium on executions in 2019,
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but prosecutors are still allowed to seek the death penalty.
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The New York Times, citing a source close to the family, reporting daughter Romy discovered her father's body on Sunday.
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Romy receiving a call from a massage therapist saying there was no response at the gate for a scheduled appointment.
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Romy and her roommate then going to the house where she fled after seeing her deceased father.
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Romy did not see her mother, but was later told by paramedics that Michelle, too, was deceased.
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Romy and brother Jake issuing a statement on Wednesday, quote,
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The horrific and devastating loss of our parents, Rob and Michelle Reiner,
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is something that no one should ever experience.
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for speculation to be tempered with compassion and humanity,
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and for our parents to be remembered for the incredible lives they lived
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Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC,
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Brendan Carr, testifying yesterday in front of the Senate Commerce Committee,
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along with Olivia Trustee and Anna Gomez, both FCC commissioners.
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Carr making headlines earlier this year by publicly commenting
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in the wake of the host's comments about Charlie Kirk's murder on his late night show.
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These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel,
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or there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.
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Later that day, Nexstar, the largest owner of local TV stations in the U.S.,
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Sinclair, another large station operator, also following suit,
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Broadcast networks, like ABC, which use public airwaves,
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are subject to FCC oversight and required to operate in the public interest.
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The FCC can yank a company's license if it violates laws and regulations.
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Carr at the time, and again in yesterday's hearing,
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maintaining he was not threatening to pull ABC's license if it did not fire Kimmel,
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rather was encouraging other companies to choose not to air the show
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That subject taking much of the hearing's time.
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Senator Gary Peters of Michigan, a Democrat, challenging Carr.
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I'm just going to ask you just a simple yes or no question.
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Will you commit here today that you will not move to revoke any media license for broadcasters
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or retaliate in any way against broadcast companies merely for choosing to host content
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that is critical of the president or says something that he may not like?
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Senator, any broadcaster that complies with the public interest standard is not in any risk at all.
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If a broadcaster is engaging in broadcast hoax or violation of news distortion policy
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or political equal opportunity, there's going to be work for the FCC potentially there.
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So you will not revoke licenses, so we can go back, that you will do that?
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You won't revoke licenses or retaliate if they're simply engaging in free speech?
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There is no First Amendment right to an FCC license.
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And the Supreme Court has said that the FCC enforcing the public interest standard
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on licensees is not a violation of the First Amendment or censorship.
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Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican, who roundly criticized Carr's pressure campaign
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in September, questioning the chairman on free speech.
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Democrat or Republican, we cannot have the government arbitrating truth or opinion.
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So long as there is a public interest standard, shouldn't it be understood to encompass robust
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First Amendment protections to ensure that the FCC cannot use it to chill speech?
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So first and foremost, we have to make sure the FCC is hewing to precedent.
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Similarly, we saw Democrats in Congress write letters to cable companies pressuring them
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to drop Fox News, OAN, and Newsmax because they disagreed with the political perspectives
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No broadcast license, no public interest standard.
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So the FCC has to write within the four corners of our precedents to be consistent with the
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Communications Act and the First Amendment concerns as well.
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In an exchange with Democrat Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Carr expanding on the FCC's role
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We have a public interest standard that Congress has put into the law.
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And there's a number of very specific rules and doctrines that flow from that.
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The broadcast hoax rule, the news distortion rule, in my position, and I think the Trump
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administration position, is that we should be enforcing those rules and policies.
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If Congress wants to change it, you're free to change it.
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Carr also making waves when questioned about the FCC's independence from the White House.
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In this round, with Senator Ben Ray Lujan, Democrat from New Mexico.
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Chairman Carr, yes or no, and please yes or no, is the FCC an independent agency?
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Well, there's a test for this in the law, in the key portion of that test.
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So just so you know, Brendan, on your website, it just simply says, man, the FCC is independent.
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Commissioner Olivia Trustee expanding on the answer.
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The president is the chief executive bested with all executive power in our government,
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We do not have four-cause removal protections, which means that we aren't independent.
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Those comments generating a flurry of headlines.
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As some online noted the language on the FCC's website changing in real time
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to remove references to the agency's independence.
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the president moving to oust officials from a number of executive agencies long viewed
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as operating with a degree of independence from the White House.
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Some of those removals triggering legal battles that went all the way to the Supreme Court,
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where the justices have so far generally sided with the president with the preliminary rulings
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The high court expected to rule on the merits of Trump's ability to fire agency heads this spring.
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Professor and director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center,
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found shot inside his Brookline, Massachusetts apartment Monday night.
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Lurero dying at the hospital on Tuesday morning.
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Police now investigating the shooting as a homicide.
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An upstairs neighbor in the apartment building,
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located in an affluent neighborhood in the Boston area,
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The Boston Globe reporting the neighbor then opened her front door
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to see Lurero lying on his back inside the building's entrance.
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Lurero's wife and another neighbor also reporting the incident.
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Other neighbors describing the event to local outlet Boston 25.
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I thought at first it was somebody in our apartment kicking in the door or something.
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And a shooting in a state where it's so hard to even have a gun?
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I mean, I don't know what happened or why it happened.
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that it seems like violence is just happening everywhere.
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Special agent in charge of FBI Boston, Ted Dox,
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saying Tuesday there does not appear to be any connection
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between this shooting and the Brown University shooting,
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Police saying yesterday morning no suspects are in custody.
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The professor joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016,
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His research on magnetized plasma dynamics, magnetic field amplification,
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and confinement and transport in fusion plasmas
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that could harness the energy of fusing plasmas,
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Investigators have not yet identified a motive in the attack,
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and it remains unclear why Larrero may have been targeted.
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President Trump reportedly expected to sign an executive order
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from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug as soon as this week.
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a moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence.
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The reclassification would not legalize marijuana at the federal level,
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President Trump, Monday from the Oval, discussing the move.
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A lot of people want to see it, the reclassification,
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because it leads to tremendous amounts of research
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Mr. Trump referencing the FDA's ability to study marijuana for medical purposes.
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Four people with knowledge of the order telling NBC News,
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the executive order is expected to direct federal officials to formally conclude
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the rescheduling process, which is currently ongoing,
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and move to redirect the cannabis to Schedule III.
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President Trump campaigning on the issue in 2024,
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supporting a ballot measure in Florida to legalize the drug for recreational use,
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and emphasizing a focus on research for medical uses.
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40 states and D.C. currently allow medical use of marijuana.
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24 of those states and D.C. allowing recreational use,
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according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Washington State and Colorado becoming the first states
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Journalist Alex Berenson for years sounding the alarm on health risks
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associated with increased potency of the drug since its legalization.
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THC concentration, the chemical that induces the high,
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the first from last week and the second from 2019.
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You have this really high potency cannabis that used to be,
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Now if you smoke it, it's 20 or 30 percent THC.
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You're not even smoking, you're just inhaling the vapor,
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And so it's easy for people to consume a lot of THC.
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Cannabis is addictive, even though the people who back it say it's not.
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It turns out that there is a proven link between cannabis and psychosis.
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There's a very, very strong risk that if you smoke too much
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when you're in your teens, you're more likely to develop schizophrenia,
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which is really a devastating mental illness for people.
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Not just for the people who suffer, but their families.
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And furthermore, there's a downstream link between psychosis and violence.
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While President Trump now supports increasing research on medical marijuana,
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Mr. Trump has often urged everyone to abstain from drugs and alcohol altogether,
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as in this 2019 clip from Take Your Child to Work Day.
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And while I have you, never take drugs, don't drink alcohol, don't smoke.
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