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[Assistant] We're on our way to, uh, well first I got something in my apartment because I forgot, uh, I didn't forget shoes.


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[Assistant] But I forgot shoes that I would want to wear, and I also forgot the soles to my shoes. Like I have a pair of shoes I would wear, but I forgot the fucking insoles. Like a total stone fucking moron reading my house. You know how that shit go. But anyway, I'm also kind of interested in getting some food on this journey. But then we're going to a little pump shop. And that's what really matters. Because that's my...


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[Assistant] This is my new house. First time on the good camera. Got like all kinds of products that you see me talk about.


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[Assistant] Look at this drawing of my beautiful cat. That's one thing I want to call attention to. Shout out to Johnny Cupcakes, one of my earliest, uh, entrepreneurial role models back when I was like 19. So we got Cody Shane, Lil Wap, and Go Yeo interviews all dropping.


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[Assistant] Next week, any historic fans of my video will remember these, my first ever Gucci shoes that I bought in the vlog with Lil Pump. They got six million views, so they're a little dusty, but I decided to bust them out today for the, uh, for the sake of the vlog, for memory's sake, you know, for, for history, really.


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[Assistant] You wanna know what these are? This is some real deal old man shit. I got fucked up back, so I went to a doctor.


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[Assistant] He's on his own mission every fucking day and on tour. You don't get to run your own life. You only get a little tiny bit of freedom.


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[Assistant] You might look at him and think he's just a kid getting fucked up.


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[Assistant] The fact that he could then claim to have escaped the most technologically advanced military in the history of mankind, fed into a defeated organization's narrative that served to breathe new life into them and enabled them to survive Operation Enduring Freedom, the defeat of the Taliban and the routing of Al Qaeda.


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[Assistant] From the very start, President Bush had said this would be a war of ideas and that American values, America's faith in freedom and democracy would triumph.


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[Assistant] For Al-Qaeda, this was an opportunity to emerge from the shadows, to confront the United States invading yet another country.


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[Assistant] President Obama's message was we were going to double down. We were going to win in Afghanistan, which was the good war.


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[Assistant] There were enormous, not just legal issues involved, but really political issues.


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[Assistant] We wanted to believe that once Bin Laden was eliminated, that the threat was over.


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[Assistant] That we had achieved what we had set out to do a decade before. That now, the architect of the 9-11 attacks, the founder and leader of Al-Qaeda was gone, the threat would end.


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[Assistant] Nothing unfortunately could have been further from the truth. The problem is that the movement had become larger than one man.


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[Assistant] The US government has received intelligence that more attacks against Americans may be imminent.


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[Assistant] And Vegas, with Tyson or the Elephant, and he eat his...


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[Assistant] This is for everything, fellas. Who is this? We're tied at 200 points apiece. She did the movie with James Bond. She's the American-Africa lady. Yes. And her husband, French guy, one day I want fighting with him and I don't know his provision boxes.


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[Assistant] I am Jimmy Kimmel. If you want to see all our latest videos, click the subscribe button. And if you don't, click anyway and close your eyes when they come on.


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[Assistant] You're interfering with official Fabletown business. Step aside. Tweedledee.


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[Assistant] Target has the package. DEO Security Squad Omega in response. I'm handling this. You're on private property, interfering with private business.


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[Assistant] He had ratings like Mother Teresa. We used to talk about that. Who's going to be top tomorrow? Mother Teresa or you? You know, and he'd laugh. Uh, but he did. The American people trusted him.


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[Assistant] Damaging piece of material in this entire presentation with respect to the American people was the connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda and thus 9-11.


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[Assistant] I later found out the al-Qaeda operatives was shake out Libby.


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[Assistant] That the information he had revealed he himself had recanted within a week.


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[Assistant] And so this most powerful moment in his presentation, probably the most influential moment with the American people, was a complete fabrication, really.


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[Assistant] Is America becoming Islamophobic? A prejudice against Muslims?


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[Assistant] And then he becomes the sort of de facto ruler of Iraq.


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[Assistant] But I also felt extreme fear of when you treat people like this, what comes from that.


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[Assistant] There was this hatred toward Muslims as if they just hated Americans and they wanted to kill Americans.


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[Assistant] Trump really came in and articulated a lot of the things that were already whispered.


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[Assistant] Really not imagining them in the United States, tanks on the street in the United States.


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[Assistant] I don't like it. Deadshot's an unstable personality.


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[Assistant] Federal authorities! Step away from him, Catwoman! I said step away! I won't say it again.


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[Assistant] Released per your orders, Director, with an expunged record and the secret thanks of a grateful nation. Though I don't know why we don't keep a leash on her. She didn't accomplish her primary mission. We had to give Bane back to save face.


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[Assistant] And what's that, Director Waller, leading us to those two degenerates?


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[Assistant] How do you feel about having to move? Are you okay with that?


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[Assistant] The Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 2009, President Barack Obama.


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[Assistant] Alright, I'll have the other braver people on to do the other stuff.


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[Assistant] What a year you're having. I mean, you are having an incredible, these are the movies just this last year, Avengers Affinity War, Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom, the Lego Movie 2, and then they have the Avengers Endgame coming out. Yes. In one year, you shot all that.


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[Assistant] I have to say, and I don't want to bring this up just to, I just complimented you and now I feel like, but we have to address it. Uhm, to lose to Chris Hemsworth as, he won for Sexiest Man and Sexiest Chris. And you, yeaah, and you didn't, you didn't.


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[Assistant] I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our constitution and our freedom. That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens.


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[Assistant] No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are. And it's not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists.


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[Assistant] Aye, that's true enough. Some people even call it the harbinger of death. But even so, we don't fear it.


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[Assistant] We already know this world is about to be swallowed up by the chaos.


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[Assistant] But the thing is, when that happens, we believe that we'll be reunited with our loved ones who passed before. The end will be terrible, but there's hope on the other side.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I'd go so far as to call it a religion, but yeah, we don't follow the city folk beliefs.


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[Assistant] They think that a messenger from God called the Savior will appear out of nowhere. Then this Savior is going to take them to a new promised land.


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[Assistant] But then, I suppose the folk praying in the orders churches don't put much stock in our beliefs either.


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[Assistant] That's fine with me. I've always said everyone's entitled to believe what they want. I just hope everyone gets what they're looking for in the end. And for us? That just means being with our families again.


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[Assistant] Uuuh. Dad, that's not fair.


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[Assistant] Hey! When you're inside this temple, you're going to lose your powers. You don't belong here. You should leave while you can.


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[Assistant] The seeress would die before she was grown and be reborn again and again. There's a yule for every life.


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[Assistant] And the chaos came from that girl. Reborn and splintered. Generation after generation. For Mule. It's under control for now. But the chaos could burst out again anytime. So you won't save everyone after all. Do you think you can live with that?


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[Assistant] When the last American troops leave, Maliki begins a pretty concerted crackdown on the Sunni population.


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[Assistant] At one point he looked up to me and he said, Hadley, can, do you think this surge strategy is going to work? And I said, Mr. President, I think it will.


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[Assistant] But I do think, Mr. President, it's our last chance to get this right. And he says, good. He says, if you ever decide...


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[Assistant] That you think the surge strategy cannot work. You need to come tell me.


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[Assistant] I tried to frame the issue for the president, knowing that this was a judgment that the president was going to have to make himself.


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[Assistant] Closure, I mean, how could the president who has started the war in Iraq, how could he leave office without going back to Iraq?


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[Assistant] In 2009, there are complaints coming out of Iraq that Maliki who was initially criticized as too weak is now being criticized as too strong and too authoritarian and increasingly sectarian.


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[Assistant] He begins to de-professionalize the military, removing Sunni commanders, replacing them with Shia commanders. He's concerned about the reliability of the armed forces.


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[Assistant] And when the last American troops leave, he begins


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[Assistant] But the ritual is God's plan, right? You're going to defy him as well?


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[Assistant] And there's only one thing in the world that would make you turn your back on it.


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[Assistant] Lightning, I know why you're going to betray God.


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[Assistant] No matter how much pain they feel, none of them ask to be destroyed. Not a single one. Being amongst them is like drowning in tears. But there's hope there too. They want a new future. They want to live again.


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[Assistant] His point was you only needed to shoot a few of them to make that point. Uh, and the looting would stop.


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[Assistant] I am in Ambassador Brimmer's front office. We get the news and then we go into his office and that's where things take off.


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[Assistant] On Sunday, our next guest won his third Super Bowl and was named the game's most valuable player from New England Patriots. Please welcome Julian Edelman.


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[Assistant] Congratulations! I mean, that's, uh, that must feel good to hold it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I would think especially for them to work that hard and to support you and then you get most valuable player. You didn't get to take it at home, right? They didn't give the most valuable player. What did they give you?


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[Assistant] Yeah, they did. They sent it to me to give to you. It's there. Yeah. Is it? Yeah.


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[Assistant] But you could use that one. And you know, I mean, like, you're a powerful guy, and you wonder why you can keep going when they're trying to tackle you, and then you see those legs, and you're like, oh, you're very, very strong. I mean, your arms, I always look at your arms every time you play, cause, do you wear shorter sleeves than the other guys? Cause your arms somehow stick out more.


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[Assistant] We sent Andy to the Super Bowl a couple of years ago, and uhm, he got too close to you, I think. We have a clip of this. Uhm, so.


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[Assistant] Good job buddy. It's that, and then let me ask you this too. When, whenever someone does something really good, like especially a touchdown, the way you reward each other is slamming your head into the other person. Like how is that helpful?


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[Assistant] You know, do a touchdown. Uhm, we'll take a break. We'll be back. We're back with Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman. Alright, so let's talk about the beard. Uhm, it, it is, what made you decide to grow it that long? And is it like, have you cut it at all this season?


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[Assistant] It's, it's very, uhm, it seems high maintenance, cause it's very, uh, bushy. I mean, do things get caught?


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[Assistant] Love what they do. Yes, you do a lot for them. And I thought it would probably mean a lot if I would donate $10,000 to them, but you need to let me shave that beard first.


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[Assistant] Alright, this is exciting. Are you nervous?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think we should leave the mustache for now, right? And then I'll let somebody else do it. I'm scared to do the mustache.


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[Assistant] Well done for completing the Medito Beginner Series.


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[Assistant] But if you can manage to spare some time in your routine each day, you'll soon realize a lasting impact. Let's start today's session. Take a moment to find a comfortable position with your back straight and shoulders relaxed. Gently close your eyes and take a few deep breaths. As you breathe deeply, try to relax the body, releasing any tension.


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[Assistant] Bring your attention to the breath, watching it come and go naturally, wherever it appears most clearly. Don't try to control the breath, just witness it.


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[Assistant] You can count each breath if it helps you to remain focused.


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[Assistant] If you realize that your mind has wandered, briefly notice the spontaneity of thinking.


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[Assistant] To finish off today's session, notice how the body feels. Try to notice all sensations at once, however they come to you.


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[Assistant] You can simply observe them without controlling them or becoming attached to them.


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[Assistant] If you can commit to a daily practice, you'll start to develop a healthier relationship with your thoughts and a more peaceful state of mind. Continue to develop your practice.


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[Assistant] And it was unsustainable for the Iraqi leadership, which at the time wasn't elected, uh, to continue.


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[Assistant] Here's a guy in charge of the biggest American war since Vietnam and nobody knows who he is.


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[Assistant] And the Americans were kind of, you know, just dropping bombs literally right next to the shrine and just kind of wiping out the Mahdi army.


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[Assistant] Bomb factory after bomb factory after bomb factory. I mean they were just making the car bombs and shipping them to Baghdad.


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[Assistant] Went out on the streets and there was no vehicular traffic allowed anywhere in the country.


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[Assistant] So the streets were empty. I remember thinking, oh my god, no one's going to come out to vote. People started to trickle out.


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[Assistant] The stories that started coming in about millions of Iraqis lining up to vote were quite encouraging.


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[Assistant] It was a really extraordinary thing, people wearing their best clothes, husbands and wives with their children, people lining up.


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[Assistant] If you look at the January election, it was a big turnout, but the Sunnis didn't vote.


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[Assistant] Some of the problem is they expect the United States to come in, they would throw billions of dollars, and in six months, this country would be like Germany is today. That's an unrealistic expectation.


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[Assistant] We were just beginning to see people reacting to the successes we were having.


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[Assistant] Uh, with the water treatment projects, with the school projects, with the sewage projects, with the police, uh, buildings and the courthouses being developed. We were really starting to see some positive response to all of that. You had momentum. We had momentum. And so we've somewhat lost that a little bit. We can regain it, but it's frustrating.


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[Assistant] We didn't see it coming. I can't tell you why it happened. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I think I'm doing like, the sun is so strong.


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[Assistant] Huh? Huh?


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[Assistant] Uh-huh.


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[Assistant] I mean apparently, you know, Steve Becker decided to put all of the best golfers on the panel today. It's nice to know that my talent, you know, has not gone unnoticed.


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[Assistant] It matters to a certain, you know, do you know how many dudes that's probably won't make an NBA roster, but if they go out there and drop 30 for the rest of their life, they're going to tell their kids that they, uh, Victor Wimby, I'm docked on him. What you talking about?


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[Assistant] Let me tell you about the time I dunked on the guy who they said was the best prospect to ever come to the NBA.


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[Assistant] I think, I'm for it. Victor, you better get in the Duncan Contest. You'll be the first 7-4, 7-5 guy to ever do it. You'll do some stuff that nobody could even fathom of doing. Gerald Smith, I mean Gerald Green blew a candle. Now you can do that just standing straight up.


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[Assistant] So when you, I was ready to make contact. So when you make contact, you tend to squeeze up. Like playing football, when you about to hit somebody, you know, people tense up. So when I didn't make contact, I never gripped it harder because I didn't hit the ball. So it just...


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[Assistant] Hey, that's fine. It happens to the best of them. I can't wait to one of these pro golfers tell you that they did the same thing.


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[Assistant] Take a lot of talent to do these things.


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[Assistant] You know, I need a recommendation. I'm trying to get on tour soon. So, you know, maybe you could write me a recommendation to get on. I'll tell you this. We'll love to have you.


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[Assistant] I think if we, if us three was to hit a golf course and we go whoever closest to the hole, I think I'd win.


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[Assistant] Close, on how many shots? One. On one shot. One shot. Closest to the hole. Yeah, obviously we do it on a par three. On a par three. Yeah.


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[Assistant] The flow, you know, can they run the offense? Do they make the right decisions when they had a ball?


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[Assistant] And you know, for Armani Bates, we went over it yesterday with McNuggets. You know, it was times where he did bad things, but it was some times where he, he knew what to do in certain situations. And I think as he keeps going, it's getting better and better. Obviously for us, the first game we wanted him to come in. And I told you, my expectation was 15. He got 16 points.


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[Assistant] But he didn't have no assists. He wasn't really getting his teammates involved. He was really just catching and firing the thing. And he was doing his same little pullback and shooting it. And then game two, you seeing him, you know,


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[Assistant] You know, swing the ball around a couple of more times, but he still had that, he still took some bad shots. And I think when you watched his last game, he shot, he shot the ball more confidently and he swung the ball a lot more. He only, not for granted, he only finished with one assist.


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[Assistant] But he swung the ball around. So he, they're in his ear telling him what he needs to do to get better. And you can see that he's trying to apply it to there. Uhm, his shot was just falling yesterday. I mean, his shot was crazy.


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[Assistant] Crazy yesterday. So I think what I ultimately what I'm finding out about a money basis is a kid who wants to learn. He wants to get better and he's trying to apply it to his game, but he's not losing who he is inside of that as well.


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[Assistant] Does he touch the floor this year as a Cleveland Cavalier?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and that's what I like about him as well. That's what I like. I think that, to be honest with you, if he's played in a cast game,


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[Assistant] You know, as a rookie, as a second round pick, there's guys out there that might be like nervous or timid. I don't think he'd be that at all. I think he'd take that ball and he'd shoot it as soon as someone gave it to him, he'd let me fly. Be quiet.


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[Assistant] What I, what I, the things that when I watch Imani Bates, I'm not, it's not the shot. We know he got the shot. I like his little, his step back move. I know that's there. What I want him to do is he got to get stronger.


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[Assistant] He's not afraid to put his body in there, but they like throwing him out the way as well, and I don't like that part either.


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[Assistant] You going up against guys like, you might switch off and have to check LeBron, or you might have to switch off and have to check Giannis for a play or something like that.


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[Assistant] Back you down and knock you out the way, obviously there's no point of you being out there. So I think that he needs to get stronger and he needs to, um, yeah, basically should get stronger and get some more bounce in his game. He will get stronger. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's going to come to what 19?


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[Assistant] I just, listen, I just want the calves to have somebody.


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[Assistant] That they developed, that they can play in the playoffs, because Dean Wade was not, he fell out. Said he came in, but you know, it wasn't what you thought he would be. And Lamar Stephens didn't give you anything either, so you had these guys who contributed during the season.


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[Assistant] But once playoff came and you needed a bucket from somebody outside of Darius, Donovan, or your core four.


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[Assistant] You didn't have anybody and I think that's what Imani Bates, that's why everybody's excited about Imani Bates cause he does hit those tough shots. Hold on before you go, I need to address one thing cause I took a peep in the chat.


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[Assistant] Wait a minute. He had a nice stint.


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[Assistant] Where he was going crazy. He had a game winning trade. Look at you, that don't, that don't move to me.


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[Assistant] Is Imani Basin Sam Mero the best 11 and 12 players on the Cavs roster currently?


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[Assistant] Frontline correspondent Martin Smith travels to Iraq.


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[Assistant] To investigate truth, war, and consequences.


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[Assistant] The drive from Kuwait city to Baghdad takes about 12 hours.


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[Assistant] We made our first trip in late April, just two weeks after the fall of Saddam.


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[Assistant] An Iraqi exile who has been at the center of efforts to topple Saddam for more than a decade.


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[Assistant] He hadn't seen southern or central Iraq since he was 18.


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[Assistant] Along the way U.S. convoys were busy moving in additional equipment and troops.


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[Assistant] The roads are not secure, bandits are a common hazard. We traveled in a convoy with other returning Iraqi exiles.


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[Assistant] With less than 300 kilometers to go, they paused for a picture.


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[Assistant] The bombed out hoax of Iraqi tanks and anti-aircraft guns littered the sides of the highways.


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[Assistant] In the city center, buildings had been blasted by missiles. Others were destroyed by fire.


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[Assistant] As well as underdevelopment and neglect at the hands of Saddam and his bath party.


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[Assistant] On top of the dilapidation came post-war looting.


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[Assistant] The looting had gone far beyond the stealing of furniture and air conditioners Looters had deconstructed entire buildings


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[Assistant] Stripped out wires, insulation, plumbing, stealing any reusable resaleable materials. They torched what remained.


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[Assistant] They found nearly all the buildings they needed to run post-war Iraq demolished.


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[Assistant] We'd heard about shortages. We saw what it meant.


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[Assistant] We came upon this station, where one man had fired a gun in anger.


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[Assistant] And when we came across soldiers they didn't seem sure of their role.


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[Assistant] We filmed these GIs after they caught a group of Iraqis stealing wood.


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[Assistant] Later the car's owner told us, I'm a taxi driver. The car was my livelihood.


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[Assistant] The day after we arrived, General Garner was speaking to a political conference.


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[Assistant] Kanan Makea came with his own ambitions about how to build a new democratic Iraq.


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[Assistant] Kanan Makiya has been involved for over 10 years with an Iraqi exile opposition group dedicated to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.


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[Assistant] Chalabi was a key player in efforts to help establish the case that Saddam was an imminent threat.


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[Assistant] When we caught up with Chalabi, he was no longer preoccupied with making the case for war. A steady stream of visitors was coming to his headquarters.


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[Assistant] The story of how they got here begins in Washington.


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[Assistant] A small group of influential policy makers has wanted to rid the Middle East of Saddam Hussein.


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[Assistant] But going to war to achieve it was not politically feasible until after September 11th, 2001.


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[Assistant] On the afternoon of September 11th, Richard Pearl phoned one of President Bush's speechwriters, David Frum.


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[Assistant] At 8.30 that evening, President Bush spoke to the nation. He laid out his policy.


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[Assistant] Echoing the words that Pearl had suggested to his speechwriter earlier in the day.


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[Assistant] Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz directed one of his deputies, Douglas Fythe.


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[Assistant] ...to set up a special office inside the Pentagon that would examine intelligence regarding Iraq's possible connection with al-Qaeda.


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[Assistant] The special intelligence office didn't trust what the CIA or even their own defense intelligence agency had to say. They did apparently listen to Ahmed Chalabi. According to one Pentagon source, he visited once every other month.


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[Assistant] Greg Theilman had analyzed intelligence for the State Department for seven years.


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[Assistant] It is not publicly known what intelligence was provided by the Special Intelligence Office.


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[Assistant] But Frontline has learned that a report from the Czech Republic that 9-11 hijacker Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague got their attention and was passed on to the White House.


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[Assistant] But the meeting in Prague was never confirmed. In fact,


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[Assistant] The FBI established one month later through car rental records


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[Assistant] That Atta was in Florida when the alleged Prague meeting would have occurred.


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[Assistant] While the Pentagon was building a case for war, the State Department was planning for the aftermath. In the spring of 2002, they launched the Future of Iraq project.


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[Assistant] The State Department invited Iraqi exiles to participate in working groups.


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[Assistant] On how to keep law and order in the streets and how to keep oil, electricity and water flowing after the war.


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[Assistant] Laith Kuba, a prominent Iraqi exile, participated in three working groups.


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[Assistant] Most Iraqi exiles were enthusiastic about the Future of Iraq project. Though some,


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[Assistant] Notably, Ahmed Chalabi and other INC Iraqis were skeptical about the usefulness of a series of seminars.


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[Assistant] They wanted to talk about who was going to rule Iraq after the war. Initially, Kanan Makiya declined an invitation to participate.


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[Assistant] Kanan Makiya has been making a case for ousting Saddam for over ten years.


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[Assistant] Frontline first filmed him in Washington in 1992, in his books.


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[Assistant] In the wake of the first Gulf War, he was one of the first Arab intellectuals to openly criticize America for failing to topple Saddam.


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[Assistant] Wolfowitz was then a professor at Johns Hopkins University.


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[Assistant] He remained a friend of Makia's and a supporter of the INC.


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[Assistant] He wouldn't have a chance to help them though until he became Secretary Rumsfeld's right-hand man.


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[Assistant] Achmed Chalabi was also in Washington in the early 1990s.


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[Assistant] He had aggressively lobbied Capitol Hill and made friends with influential Republicans.


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[Assistant] Who helped him get a meeting in the first Bush White House with National Security Council advisor Richard Haass.


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[Assistant] Under the proviso that the INC would represent all Iraqis, Kurds, Shias and Sunnis.


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[Assistant] The US government gave the INC CIA money and contacts.


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[Assistant] But in the mid-90s, when Chalabi tried to launch an Iraqi uprising,


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[Assistant] He found he had miscalculated the depth of American support.


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[Assistant] The Clinton administration feared Chalabi had misrepresented the strength and breadth of his movement.


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[Assistant] ...and had provided shoddy intelligence about Saddam's military.


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[Assistant] The White House ordered the CIA to abandon the operation.


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[Assistant] Chalabi turned back to Washington. With the help of friends in Congress, he lobbied for the passage of a bill.


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[Assistant] The Iraqi Liberation Act that would make regime change in Iraq official U.S. government policy.


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[Assistant] The Iraqi Liberation Act funneled millions of dollars to the INC.


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[Assistant] Chalabi used some of the money to attract and pay defectors.


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[Assistant] He then passed them to the government as well as to the media.


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[Assistant] Many news organizations, including Frontline, used Chalabi's defectors in their reports.


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[Assistant] or had programs for biological or nuclear weapons was much harder to determine. In Baghdad, we visited Dr. Hamad al-Bahali, one of the founders of Iraq's civilian nuclear program.


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[Assistant] Dr. Bahaly believes that despite all its money and equipment, Iraq didn't have the expertise to assemble a weapon.


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[Assistant] Today, Dr. Bahaly is more concerned with the radioactive contamination of villagers living near the looted nuclear plant Tuatha, where he worked for the last ten years.


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[Assistant] The Army has now secured the gates of Tuatha, which had once been a major point of interest for inspectors.


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[Assistant] For months, a CIA Pentagon team has scoured Iraq.


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[Assistant] But it reportedly has found no evidence of weapons of mass destruction.


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[Assistant] In spite of past claims by Ahmed Chalabi and the INC.


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[Assistant] Prior to the war, the administration was reading intelligence that was often vague, sometimes contradictory.


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[Assistant] Unlike the intelligence though, the message the administration rolled out in the fall of 2002 was sharp and clear.


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[Assistant] What was missing from all the speeches and television appearances were the caveats and contrary evidence from their own intelligence agencies.


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[Assistant] In a classified report circulated within the administration in late September 2002,


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[Assistant] The Defense Intelligence Agency stated that there was no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing or stockpiling chemical weapons.


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[Assistant] The Pentagon's special intelligence office was coming up short of proving Saddam had current and active links to Al-Qaeda.


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[Assistant] The fall campaign would culminate with a speech by President Bush on October 7th in Cincinnati.


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[Assistant] The defector mentioned in the president's speech came to the administration's attention via Ahmed Chalabi.


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[Assistant] Chalabi was also making claims about Saddam and Al-Qaeda.


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[Assistant] We talked to Chalabi at INC headquarters in Baghdad.


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[Assistant] The document was supposed to demonstrate money changing hands between Saddam Hussein's government and al-Qaeda.


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[Assistant] After repeated requests, Frontline has still not seen the document.


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[Assistant] The cause had always been establishing a democracy in Iraq.


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[Assistant] Kanan Makiya arrived with his own detailed blueprint for democracy.


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[Assistant] Among them was a controversial proposal to remove Saddam's entire bureaucracy from office after the war.


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[Assistant] Kanan Makia wrote in a London newspaper that the enemies of a democratic Iraq lay within the U.S. State Department.


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[Assistant] Here, top civilian officials believe the early establishment of a provisional government was a good idea.


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[Assistant] It could facilitate an early U.S. military withdrawal.


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[Assistant] An interagency debate intensified in Washington.


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[Assistant] ...over whether America would go to war backing a Chalabi-led provisional government or not.


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[Assistant] Kanan Makiya received an invitation to meet with the president.


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[Assistant] Though the White House backed up the State Department in opposing an INC provisional government in exile, eight days later, the President handed over the reins of postwar planning


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[Assistant] To Secretaries Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz at the Pentagon.


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[Assistant] Rumsfeld entrusted Garner with full responsibility for post-war politics and reconstruction.


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[Assistant] Much of the Future of Iraq project was set aside.


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[Assistant] The Pentagon's plan for post-war Iraq assumed that once Saddam, his sons, and top lieutenants were gone,


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[Assistant] The remaining soldiers, policemen and Bath Party bureaucrats would cooperate with U.S. authorities.


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[Assistant] Another assumption was that Iraqis would greet the Americans as liberators, an assurance they got from the INC.


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[Assistant] While the administration was listening to Mekia, they were ignoring the warnings of others. In February 2003,


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[Assistant] Richard Pearl invited an expert in post-war situations to make a presentation at the Pentagon.


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[Assistant] This expert warned about the potential for post-war violence.


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[Assistant] An official on President Reagan's National Security Council staff.


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[Assistant] has studied post-war problems in Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor and Haiti.


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[Assistant] In all these places, he pointed out, there was widespread looting.


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[Assistant] We wanted to ask the administration's top officials about planning for post-war Iraq.


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[Assistant] We approached Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and Vice President Dick Cheney. They all declined. A brutal dictator.


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[Assistant] We scheduled an interview with Wolfowitz's deputy Douglas Fythe.


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[Assistant] But just hours before we sat down the White House intervened. The interview was cancelled. We received no explanation.


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[Assistant] We wanted to ask questions about WMD, but also about the broader rationale for the war. Questions about oil, and about the prospects of an Iraqi democracy.


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[Assistant] Those close to the administration talk of an ambitious set of goals.


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[Assistant] What they have not explained is how something that had been investigated 12 months earlier at the request of the Vice President


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[Assistant] Greg Theilman had investigated rumors of African uranium sales to Iraq a year before the president's speech.


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[Assistant] Secretary Powell would present the administration's case to the U.N.


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[Assistant] Though he did leave out mention of the Niger uranium story, the crux of Powell's nuclear case was that Iraq was procuring aluminum tubes and other vital parts of a uranium enrichment facility.


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[Assistant] Against the advice of some top military commanders at the Pentagon.


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[Assistant] Achmed Chalabi was flown by the U.S. military to the town of Nazaria.


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[Assistant] It was hoped that he could launch an uprising of Shias long oppressed by Saddam.


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[Assistant] The orders came from Undersecretary Doug Fythe in the Pentagon.


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[Assistant] If Chalabi, a secular Shia, could lead Iraqis into battle, it would give him local credibility.


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[Assistant] At first, a crowd of several thousand came to see what this largely unknown exile, Chalabi, had to say. It seemed to be going well.


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[Assistant] But the State Department and uniformed military vigorously opposed the idea of marching Chalabi and his free Iraqi forces into Baghdad. Other Iraqi politicians were also opposed.


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[Assistant] The generals were unimpressed by the people's response to Chalabi and his army.


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[Assistant] The U.S. Army removed Chalabi and his fighters to a nearby military base and kept him out of the fighting. A disappointed Chalabi was left sitting in the desert without transportation. He wouldn't get to Baghdad until five days after its fall.


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[Assistant] It was what Robert Perito had told the Pentagon would happen.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, General Garner and his Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, ORHA, remained holed up at the Hilton Hotel in Kuwait.


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[Assistant] Finally, U.S. Commander Tommy Franks relented and flew Garner into Baghdad.


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[Assistant] He set up shop at the former headquarters of Saddam's Republican Guard.


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[Assistant] Even still, Garner and his team were unable to get to work.


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[Assistant] The army didn't have enough Humvees or soldiers to drive them.


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[Assistant] And not only could the reconstruction team not get around Baghdad, they couldn't call out of the palace. Phones were down.


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[Assistant] Because of U.S. missile strikes on many of Baghdad's telephone exchanges.


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[Assistant] Garner's team was also coping with growing violence. On April 28th in the Sunni town of Fallujah,


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[Assistant] U.S. soldiers opened fire on a crowd demonstrating against U.S. troops who were occupying a local school. Within a few minutes, 17 Iraqis were dead and 70 wounded.


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[Assistant] Two days later, in Fallujah, another crowd gathered to protest the American violence.


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[Assistant] U.S. soldiers fired into the crowd again. Three more Iraqis were killed.


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[Assistant] The administration concluded that Iraq urgently needed more law and order. They scrambled to find a replacement for Garner.


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[Assistant] Ambassador Paul Bremer arrived in Baghdad on May 12th.


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[Assistant] Bremer would take another run at formulating US policy.


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[Assistant] Bremer, a former ambassador to the Netherlands, had little Middle East experience.


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[Assistant] But he was a State Department counter-terrorism chief in the 1980s.


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[Assistant] And a protege and business partner of Henry Kissinger. Bremer moved quickly to reassert U.S. control. Security was tightened.


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[Assistant] And much to the dismay of politicians like Ahmed Chalabi,


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[Assistant] Bremer delayed the establishment of an Iraqi-led government.


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[Assistant] Chalabi flew to Washington and complained to his friends on the hill and in the Pentagon.


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[Assistant] Garner was criticized most heavily for retaining bathist technocrats who ran the machinery of government.


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[Assistant] Ambassador Bremer ordered a policy of complete debathification.


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[Assistant] Thirty to forty thousand bathists were banned from holding any public office.


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[Assistant] Power plants and oil pipelines became regular targets.


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[Assistant] At least one, sometimes two American soldiers were being killed every day.


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[Assistant] More than 1600 American soldiers have been wounded since the war began. Over 300 have died.


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[Assistant] A joint army CIA strike force whose brief is to find Saddam.


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[Assistant] We caught up with them in the town of Thaluia, just as a raid was underway.


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[Assistant] We were prevented from entering the town by soldiers providing support for the task force.


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[Assistant] It is located in the heart of the Sunni triangle where most of the fighting between Americans and Iraqis is taking place.


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[Assistant] Afterwards, we went to talk to the villagers. The raid had apparently come up empty.


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[Assistant] The army mounts scores of raids each week, chasing an elusive enemy.


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[Assistant] After a landmine seriously wounded two US soldiers in downtown Baghdad,


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[Assistant] Our cameraman rushed to the scene and witnessed this shootout.


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[Assistant] Soldiers were exchanging fire with some men in the building on the right.


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[Assistant] Then, for no apparent reason, the soldiers began firing in our direction.


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[Assistant] The administration has been critical of the press for being too negative.


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[Assistant] Much of Baghdad is again bustling with everyday commerce.


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[Assistant] But with a guerrilla war, violence occurs randomly.


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[Assistant] Drivers of two cars apparently confused by impromptu roadblocks were stopped by gunfire.


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[Assistant] Down the street, a man, his wife and child.


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[Assistant] A pedestrian was also killed. The victims all lived in the neighborhood and were returning home.


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[Assistant] It's expected to take a year before a fully debathified army and police force can be deployed.


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[Assistant] Some are former soldiers in Saddam's army trying to get their jobs back. Unemployment is currently running at over 50%.


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[Assistant] The aftermath has proven to be far more complicated than the Bush administration had predicted. It's also far more costly.


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[Assistant] Ambassador Bremer is only talking about the cost of reconstruction.


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[Assistant] A cost of military occupation has been estimated at another four billion dollars a month. Bremer says there is no choice.


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[Assistant] The U.S. will stay in Iraq as long as it takes to rebuild.


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[Assistant] In mid-July, Bremer appointed a 25-member Iraqi governing council.


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[Assistant] Dominating the council are exiles, prominent among them, Ahmed Chalabi.


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[Assistant] And he has begun to distance himself from his American patrons.


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[Assistant] Chalabi is worried that more violence against foreigners will threaten America's long-term commitment.


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[Assistant] On August 19th, a blast at the United Nations mission in Baghdad.


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[Assistant] Killed Special Envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 22 others.


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[Assistant] The UN has pared back its mission in Iraq from 650 to just 50 international workers.


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[Assistant] President Bush came to the UN to appeal for money and troops from the international community.


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[Assistant] He had angered US officials by lobbying France and Germany for their support for a speedy transfer of sovereignty to Iraqis. He spent his press conference trying to patch up differences with Washington.


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[Assistant] Kanan Makiya began his career as an architect before he became an author and human rights activist.


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[Assistant] We followed him here to what was once the Museum of Gifts to President Saddam Hussein.


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[Assistant] Soon, Makia hopes to turn this building into a museum of remembrance.


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[Assistant] To catalog the torture and murder of tens of thousands of Iraqis by Saddam and his regime.


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[Assistant] Makiya is also still hoping to participate in drafting a new Iraqi constitution.


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[Assistant] He expects America to make good on its promises to help rebuild his country.


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[Assistant] Chasing the sleeper cell, next time on Frontline.


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[Assistant] I'm going through the mail and some other stuff.


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[Assistant] Like, empty bags at the same time.


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[Assistant] Well I did. I worked very hard because I had, I came to the conclusion very early on that if the U.S. is not heavily involved in helping the Iraqi people get rid of Saddam, Saddam is going to stay and his son is going to come after.


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[Assistant] I went to Hass. He told me, I'm seeing you only because you impressed some congressman.


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[Assistant] I was supposed to meet him, I don't know, for half an hour. We stayed 90 minutes. I explained to him the strategy. He said we will support an Iraqi political movement that will come out endorsing democracy in Iraq, democratic government, pluralistic government in Iraq, renunciation of weapons of mass destruction.


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[Assistant] Saddam is the problem. He can never be part of any solution.


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[Assistant] The Iraqi people know full well the horror of chemical and biological weapons.


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[Assistant] We believe that he was developing weapons of mass destruction. Based on what evidence? Evidence that we heard from his people, but we never gave this to the United States because we knew that this kind of evidence will be unacceptable and we will be... Why? Because it is not verifiable for the United States. We get a piece of information from an officer. So what was hearsay?


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[Assistant] In U.S. hands. We gave the names of the people. There were visits of al-Qaeda here. And there was money that changed hands.


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[Assistant] Well, I've seen it, but I don't have it in my possession. They could show it to you, I think. Who can show it to me?


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[Assistant] I said no, uh, we, we will not, uh, recognize a, uh, government that is formed by the opposition which is outside the country. We, uh, want to get people from inside the country involved and they should be play a leading role in this provision government.


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[Assistant] I believe that the people who did not want to do anything against Saddam.


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[Assistant] Took up, took me up as the best noir of this. Thinking that I was an easy target to discredit the entire policy.


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[Assistant] You became an extremely divisive character. Yes, well, they made me so. Not I.


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[Assistant] To show that we can operate on Iraqi territory without much U.S. help.


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[Assistant] The problem with Ghana was that he was employing Ba'athists in senior positions.


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[Assistant] We need security. We need security, but we can, if the US pulls out, we have to have our own plans.


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[Assistant] No, there will be fighting in Iraq. There will be a lot of bloodshed. But we will not abandon the situation. We will fight and I believe we will win.


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[Assistant] We, the Iraqi people, are grateful to President Bush and to the United States


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[Assistant] Congress and the people of the United States.


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[Assistant] There's nothing to be scared about. Let's take a look at what we've got here. Uh, here are the delicacies. We've got hot sauce. We have a giant water scorpion. A sardine smoothie.


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[Assistant] Pig flesh meat jelly.


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[Assistant] You can never, this is the most close you can ever get. What you trying to do?


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[Assistant] Hang out here long enough and you get to see all kinds of things. Like those white garb loonies, for example.


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[Assistant] Those atrophanatics used to keep a low profile, but recently I see them everywhere. The orders authority isn't what it was. Now those people wander the streets like they own the place.


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[Assistant] Do you think they know something we don't? Maybe they have a date for the end of the world, who knows?


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[Assistant] Everything that American troops have done in Iraq, all the fighting and all the dying, all of it has led to this moment of success.


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[Assistant] Today I'm proud to welcome Prime Minister Maliki, the elected leader of a sovereign, self-reliant, and democratic Iraq.


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[Assistant] They're just... fishing. I know that's not true.


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[Assistant] Maybe I could practice outside. There's that tree.


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[Assistant] I, I thought you were dead.


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[Assistant] For more on this and other Frontline programs, visit our website at pbs.org.


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[Assistant] Frontline's Losing Iraq is available on DVD. To order, visit shoppbs.org or call 1-800-PLAY-PBS. Frontline is also available for download on iTunes.


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[Assistant] Ya Allah, muddat baat tu ne ek beta diya hai. Ab usse taafiq bhi dena.


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[Assistant] For me, and I will never ask anything of you again, but please, leave Tad in peace.


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[Assistant] I have a family. We're starving. We live down there.


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[Assistant] From a distance, it looked like anyone. I thought, I thought he was gonna shoot my friends, and I, I shot Matthew. It happened real fast, I didn't know if I hit him, but I did, and I didn't mean to.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, a public service announcement for all those people. See, what happens in life is sometimes other people's problems can affect you. So say for instance, something happens in Canada, it doesn't have to be here, right? It could be warmer in Canada and wildfires can happen and it's harder to put them out. And we may have water shortages. As you can see, uhm,


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[Assistant] Climate change and uh, and regulations matter in this world and you can be affected by something that happens thousands of miles away.


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[Assistant] They trying to worry about food and you're looking around and the water is rising in Southeast Asia. Now I don't want to get all in there. But at the same time, at the end of the day, it affected us in a big way. And it is newsworthy.


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[Assistant] I'll give McNuggets credit. He's been foreshadowing and forecasting, uh, in his little room back there with his, you know, numbers and calculators.


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[Assistant] He's been calculating and telling us that, like, the game is changing now.


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[Assistant] For a while it seemed like you could go out and get three, four, five, six dudes. You got, you got, you got three, five max, max players plus the mid level plus you amnesty somebody like, dang, how much money did the gold state warriors got to get all of these people on the team?


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[Assistant] Kyrie Irving has maybe one team, no market. You take a look at-


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[Assistant] Today is their day in the sun. Yeaah, let them have it. You'll have your day, one day too.


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[Assistant] Because here's, you don't, see, you don't, you can't cultivate them. It kind of goes back to like the NBA as far as when you, when you were in high school, right? You knew who the best players were?


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[Assistant] Because they played on, you know, St. Ed's or St. Nations, and guess what? You can watch them.


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[Assistant] Now, it don't even matter what you do in high school. It's all about your, your ranking is AAU. Sure. Like, so you don't get to grow with the player. Where, where you slide in on the recruiting. If you're going to college, college basketball, that doesn't matter. Like now, now you, now the best players is from G-League Unite and all these others. So you can't even really develop that.


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[Assistant] If you have these other rules, it makes it more difficult for those teams with the players to round out a roster. If you're the Cavs, you have an opportunity where other people, if you can develop.


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[Assistant] If you can be somewhat fiscally responsible, and if you can get guys that you draft well, you get them in a system, you propagate them, you get them together, and then you might, in five or six years, you may have a window.


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[Assistant] See the calves aren't doing anything nobody else is doing, right? This isn't new under the sun. But the problem with the calves is they have a messaging problem, right?


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[Assistant] The, the, the guardians message their stuff.


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[Assistant] Up and down. And they let you know what it is, right? The guardians will let you know, hey, we're not getting free agents. Hey, we always gotta have conversations about trading some of our best players. But the problem with the Cavs is the Cavs are a mid-major team.


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[Assistant] Just like the Guardians are. They have the same restraints. They have the same, almost the same amount of, the fan base that's a little fickle.


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[Assistant] If you got a good team, we'll come up, we'll show up, and we'll watch you.


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[Assistant] Right? But you're not gonna, we're not gonna come up and be there every single game.


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[Assistant] Like if you were just come rain, sleet, or snow. That's not gonna happen. Like the Browns fan base. So the Cavs should be messaging more like the Guardians message. Now look. We are who we are. We are who we are. Donovan Mitchell, we saw an opportunity to get Donovan Mitchell. Guess what? Donovan Mitchell does not come around here an awful lot. Now, we did go out and get him.


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[Assistant] But we also have to be flexible enough to say once we got them and it's an asset, how do we maximize it? And, and we can't just lose them for nothing. So you guys might be a little uncomfortable out there.


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[Assistant] But we're going to talk about moving and trading and doing a lot of stuff because that's what we have to do as a Cavs organization.


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[Assistant] And he said, the calves are doing something. And you know what, it's like, Woe's thing is, I'm gonna be the first. But if you market yourself as the dude, I'm really the first dude, but I'm just giving you hints. It's almost, it's part, it piques your interest. Like, let me see if I can figure out this trade. Exactly. What is deciphering?


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[Assistant] That, that, that's it. I wouldn't. That's his, that's his market value.


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[Assistant] I don't think so. How much, I mean, how much is he gonna demand on open market? I think he's in the mid-level exception-ish range. I've, I've got him like 18.


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[Assistant] You know, I think sometimes people don't realize, to become a playmaker like that, you have to have a certain level of creativity. Like, basketball is a free-form sport. Like, they don't tell you to take three dribbles, turn around and throw a hook.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like that, that's all, that's all. It's read and react. It's just like these guys, I came up with this move.


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[Assistant] You did this, I'm gonna do this. Like, it's easy to tell a pitcher, hey, I need you to develop two more pitches this offseason. What? Yeaah. Like, really? Like, he, either you got, I came with three pitches.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna ride this fastball and maybe throw a change up, but other than that, you got what you got. I think it's a little more difficult to that, and I think the thing you mentioned in Monty Bates, one of the reasons I


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[Assistant] Like people like, oh my gosh, he's gonna, Jason said he's gonna break your heart. I'm like, no, that ain't my job.


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[Assistant] Well listen. And that's fine. That's fine. He's the second-round pick. Get on developing. Like, get to developing. Like that's, see, this is, when I say sometimes put pressure on an organization, I don't mean just in trade.


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[Assistant] The institutions stay the same. Coaches, players come.


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[Assistant] There's an opportunity here that you got a kid with some talent. He's not like Bridges, because Bridges is for lack of a better term. He's already, he's done.


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[Assistant] He is who he is. Like you don't change. He's a finished product. Yeah. You don't change character when you 24, 20, 26. Yeah, it's, it's harder. It's harder. You can't, but it's really tough. You got a younger guy. He's moldable. You could take the fact that, Hey bro, you went from a sports illustrator magazine today near not even getting drafted. Right.


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[Assistant] I think he's gonna get some money. I think he's gonna get money. He's not gonna get no money from, oh man, that's a tough one. He's not going to Denver. Uhm, I'mma say


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[Assistant] I think Houston, I was gonna say, I was gonna say Philadelphia, but


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[Assistant] The Spurs could be good though. Like if they say they went and got Lopez and got Van Vliet. Well wait till you see the next guy.


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[Assistant] But the ratings were through the roof. It grows your sport. I used to always love like when I would watch these different games, I would watch like bowl games.


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[Assistant] Georgia Tech, Colorado, there's teams out there, what the heck is this? Yeaah, I know. I know, because it wasn't one of the blue bloods. Yeaah, and so I think it's good, I think for baseball that would definitely work. I wish it would do that.


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[Assistant] And that's why Houston has to start winning with young players unless they want their young players to be like indoctrinated as they're losing all that time. They definitely have to make something work with that.


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[Assistant] It was different. Like it was, it's even different today than it was back then. You won't, you, it's hard to sell out anything now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Ignatius was undefeated and we were undefeated. Ignatius was like, we were ranked in the country back then. So it was like, them games was like, like you go to those games and you losing you out.


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[Assistant] Give me one sec, I'll pull it up. That's kind of crazy. He made it to the championship.


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[Assistant] And at the middle of the season, they was trash. They were like, they at one point, like one in four or five. One in four or five or what? He start coming on UCSS.


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[Assistant] He's actually good though. I don't, I can't, like, he's actually, he's actually good bro. Like, like, it's like,


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[Assistant] The USFL has to, and I like their uniforms too, by the way, and I don't like nothing with black and yellow. I don't either, but they're, I like the style of them. They're crisp. Yeah. Uh, boogie...


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[Assistant] If the USFL wants to get to where they need to go,


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[Assistant] They gotta be, they gotta have poster childs. They gotta, and if you can't market boogie, I don't know who you gonna market. I know because this guy and he's good.


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[Assistant] Look, let him interview some people. Like come on out. You see he got it. He got the, he got the it factor. That's all they need to do. All they need to do is just really like, find one or two guys to really let them hit and they stick


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[Assistant] The goal is to be like, listen, if you want to go to the next league, the next level,


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[Assistant] We got people going to the next level. Look at here, here, here. Look at this guy right here. Yeaah. And then you'll get more of a, more traction.


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[Assistant] I remember, didn't a dude from Texas, uhm, he played at TCU, then he was returning kicks last year.


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[Assistant] I remember watching him when he was a young dude. 25 for TCU. He was doing his thing. I'm like, this dude is fat.


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[Assistant] So, go ahead, I'm sorry. How do you guys recruit players? Like, I mean...


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[Assistant] Do you, you obviously have to be able to bat, you have to be able to throw the ball, you have to be able to catch, you have to be able to do those things, but obviously it would help if you know how to dance, sing, rap, uh, look decent, dance and make a fool of yourself. How do you guys like really go about recruiting? Like that's kind of hard.


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[Assistant] And then get it and you can play it in the stadiums and then, you know, do something in the seventh inning or something and bring them out and do something really quickly. Because I think this is, this is another wave of different ways you can spread the game.


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[Assistant] You got two minutes. Look, I'm sure Major League Baseball can work with them. Can't y'all work with us a little bit? I mean. They're crazy if they don't figure out a way to tap into it because it's wildly successful. Because I, watch this, there's probably people that are a fan of that baseball that are not watching traditional baseball games.


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[Assistant] And Salvi's a veteran catcher. One of the best. So who makes that decision?


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[Assistant] Like see this is, yea, he was nowhere close. Unbelievable angle right there, by the way. And by the way, like the ball has to, he's throwing a hundred miles an hour, that ball was there in like a blink of an eye, like. Without question. So Jose Ramirez has to be at least three quarters of the way. Yes. And he slid from East Lancaster, bro. He slid, he slid.


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[Assistant] That's so unceremoniously. Like that's just kinda right. Like you just like don't know when you're done. Like he's just, it's crazy.


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[Assistant] And you know why I'm excited about it is because it now forces people to understand and to have a different way of thinking about baseball.


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[Assistant] Nowadays kids coming up that maybe want to switch it, kids coming up that want to pitch and want to continue to bat that are pretty good.


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[Assistant] Now maybe if we can get guys that are interested in batting, you can get people that can be like a Shoei, right? Oh, Tony, cause you now, you're now putting it back in that it is possible after so many years of people saying, no, you're either going to pitch or you're going to hit.


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[Assistant] You know, Coach Holtz, you know, I was talking with the panel earlier and I said, you know, one of the things the USFL and any league, you know, wants is, is guys that can make it to the next level and guys that you can promote to go to the next level.


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[Assistant] Because it helps the league grow. Uh, if there's one or two guys on your team right now that you would say, uh, if you had to make a, uh, you know, a pitch for, uh, that deserve to be at the next level or deserve to have a shot,


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[Assistant] Could you shed some light on those players and what they bring to the table and why you feel like they can play at the next level?


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[Assistant] Number one offense versus number one defense. You know, they, back in the day they said defense wins championships. Now they say you gotta throw the ball around a little bit. Uhm, when you look at what they're able to do on the other side of the football as far as defense goes, uhm, what are some things that you guys, uh, you know, go into this game really need to do in order to make sure that you guys can win this game?


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[Assistant] You know, uh, when you talk about going to your own hub, uh, are they moving towards next year, you guys playing out of your own stadiums, out of your own facilities, practicing there? I mean, you guys practice here currently, um, but are they moving to a, a model where now you get your own, your own community involved into the USFL as well?


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[Assistant] Quarterback play is gonna be huge for them and the XFL because that's what we come to see. And if you watch a game with horrible quarterback play, it's like watching paint dry.


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[Assistant] Pull out a thin air. I don't even go. Listen, when you got, when you got breathing problems, you got asthma, you just be going right to the house. You don't even be talking. You don't even see nobody with breathing problems. You should be like, yeah, I'm in the house. Yeah, you can pretty much can't go out there.


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[Assistant] Like, like, I'll be trying, like, it was like, Gee Bush, would you, like, would you, your favorite artist in the world, would you go up there and would you watch them live? And I'd be like, listen, first of all, it's just like football, dude.


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[Assistant] I wasn't expecting anyone. I know this looks a little odd.


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[Assistant] Well, I didn't know who it was. You can't be too careful these days.


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[Assistant] Please, Bigby. Promise me you won't tell Beast you saw me.


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[Assistant] He worries too much as it is, and it would just make my life a lot easier. Just, please.


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[Assistant] I will explain it all to you later. I will, but I have to go.


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[Assistant] You lived and breathed for the firm. And the hours were insane. Uhm, you never questioned it. And on a relative basis, you were making so much money. And you felt grateful. You felt indebted to the bank.


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[Assistant] You know, so desperate to perform for the bank. I mean, you know, for so many of us, if you slit our wrists, carpet logos would jump out.


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[Assistant] Half of me is an F9 monkey, and the other half would be on the road, uhm, marketing, uhm, to accounts.


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[Assistant] Well, just somebody, uhm, who is just simply pricing all of these structures.


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[Assistant] Exactly right, so you just had to put in a few inputs.


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[Assistant] And press F9 and it would determine the price of the instrument and in fact your hedge as well.


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[Assistant] hedge funds, uh, to pension funds, to insurance companies, uh, to all sorts of different types of banks.


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[Assistant] And there were many uses to the product, so it just, it naturally grew.


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[Assistant] Your job was to find a solution, a legal solution, to selling these derivative products. And the more of this, if you want to say regulatory accounting arbitrage that happened, uhm, the more you got promoted and the more you were paid.


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[Assistant] My goodness, I can't believe Goldman Sachs, uhm, has pushed it this far and clearly has broken the spirit of the law.


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[Assistant] Uh, the reaction was, you better go down to Athens and find out if there's any more to do. How did you miss this? So, uh,


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[Assistant] Most banks were trying to see if they can replicate it.


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[Assistant] You've come to the right place. You remind me of a guy I served with in Nam.


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[Assistant] What? I can't read any of this shit. I can help.


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[Assistant] Hmm, an exquisite design from the good china of Toad Hall. Mr. Toad? He probably wrote this in himself.


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[Assistant] It says, brickelbit in an older elvish hand. What's brickelbit? A magic word. What's it do? Makes animals shit gold.


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[Assistant] Yes, from the axe of the woodsman, a druid blessing, actually. Someone bless that thing? I only translate.


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[Assistant] Mark of the house of the frog prince. Not quite who I'm looking for.


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[Assistant] She had a magic cloak made from the skin of her father's prized donkey that would hide her beauty so she could escape his kingdom.


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[Assistant] Eventually she married a prince who could see past the magic cloak and knew her true beauty. And they lived happily ever after.


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[Assistant] Good game, good game. Nice pitching kiddo. I know it stinks to lose. But there's, you know.


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[Assistant] Do you have anything else you could wear? Could you try something else on?


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[Assistant] Hello guys, welcome to this English course on adjectives.


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[Assistant] In today's video, I'm going to talk about prefixes and suffixes that are commonly added to adjectives in English.


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[Assistant] Add it to the end of the word to change the meaning. We'll get more into detail. Let's get started.


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[Assistant] Let's take a look at a few adjectives with prefixes. Again, a prefix is a few letters added to the beginning of the adjective, mostly to make it negative. Let's take a look at a few examples. First, we have the prefix, un, u-n. For example,


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[Assistant] If we take the word fair and we want to make it negative, we can add u-n to have the word unfair. Which is the opposite of fair. Same goes for happy. Unhappy. Sure becomes unsure. Another prefix is i-n. In. To make the adjective negative again. For example, active.


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[Assistant] The prefix, I are now, ir. For example, responsible, irresponsible. Regular, irregular. Rational, irrational.


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[Assistant] Then we have the prefix, I am in. For example, balance, imbalance. Polite, impolite. Possible, impossible.


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[Assistant] And finally the prefix ill, i-l, like legal, illegal. Literate, illiterate. Logical, illogical.


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[Assistant] These are just a few examples, guys. There are so many other prefixes in English. But I hope you now have a better understanding.


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[Assistant] Not necessarily a negative adjective. It's not like prefixes.


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[Assistant] Now there are so many suffixes in English, but here is a list of very common ones. We can find a suffix, a-ble, like adorable, comfortable. Also the suffix, in, e-en, like broken, golden. Ease, like Chinese, Japanese. Full, like wonderful.


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[Assistant] Powerful. Like informative. Talkative. Us. Dangerous. Enormous. Awesome. Like awesome. Handsome.


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[Assistant] Again these are just a few examples. There are so many suffixes. But I hope you now have a good idea of how to use suffixes in English. Let's now move on to practice.


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[Assistant] Okay guys, let's practice finding adjectives in the following sentences and prefixes or suffixes. Let's have a look.


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[Assistant] I have an uncomfortable seat. Now, can you spot the adjective first?


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[Assistant] Of course, the adjective here is uncomfortable.


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[Assistant] Can you see any prefix or suffix? I do. There is a prefix which is un.


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[Assistant] And there is a suffix as well, the suffix OVO.


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[Assistant] First we added a suffix to make it into an adjective which is comfortable.


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[Assistant] And then we added a prefix, un, to make it negative. So the seat is not comfortable. It is uncomfortable.


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[Assistant] That's how prefixes and suffixes can be used in English.


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[Assistant] The second sentence, she has a black car. Can you spot the adjective first? Of course it's the adjective black. Is there a suffix or a prefix? No, there isn't. Next sentence.


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[Assistant] Yes, there is a prefix again which is un to make the adjective negative. And there is a suffix for to make the noun help into an adjective. unhelpful


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[Assistant] Next sentence. The actor is handsome. The adjective, of course, is handsome. Is there a prefix?


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[Assistant] No, there isn't. Is there a suffix? Of course, some. Handsome. I hate oily food.


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[Assistant] The adjective is oily, of course. Is there a prefix? There isn't. Is there a suffix?


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[Assistant] Of course, the y is a suffix. You have the words, the noun, oil. And to make it into an adjective, you add a suffix y.


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[Assistant] And finally, she is a dishonest woman. The adjective is dishonest, of course. Do you have a prefix?


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[Assistant] We do, yes. We have the prefix dis. So this woman is not honest. She is dishonest.


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[Assistant] Okay, so that's how with prefixes and suffixes we can really transform words in English. It's wonderful, isn't it?


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[Assistant] Okay guys, let's now review the sentences together and focus on pronunciation. Repeat after me, please.


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[Assistant] I have an uncomfortable seat.


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[Assistant] Good job. Second sentence. She has a black car.


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[Assistant] Good. Keep repeating. His father was unhelpful.


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[Assistant] Good. Moving on. I hate oily food.


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[Assistant] Keep practicing. It takes practice to get better at identifying prefixes and suffixes. But I'm sure you can do it. Make sure you watch the next video as I continue talking about adjectives in English. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Thank you guys for watching my video. I hope this helped you. If you liked the video, please show me your support. Click like. Subscribe to the channel. Put your comments below if you have some and share it with your friends. See you.


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[Assistant] I know who you are. And I know you want this to be over.


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[Assistant] But this suffering had to happen. And it will come to an end soon, my love. I have been sent back to help you.


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[Assistant] Ugh, this castle and its inhabitants fear that you will leave this place forever! They will stop at nothing to keep you here! Your power keeps them alive!


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[Assistant] Choose me. I am your woman. I am yours. You know me, Gabriel.


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[Assistant] Don't fall for her wile. I am woman. Deep inside you know the truth.


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[Assistant] She's trying to make you doubt me, ignore her. Follows your heart.


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[Assistant] She is trying to trick you. Don't listen to her Gabriel.


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[Assistant] You must choose I have faith in you.


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[Assistant] That teen, for the most part, gathers around Barack Obama as he rises. And who've you got?


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[Assistant] You've got Robert Reich, the liberal labor secretary under Bill Clinton. You've got Joe Stiglitz, who of course called the crisis earlier than anyone.


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[Assistant] And at the center of it, you've got all six foot eight of them, Paul Volcker.


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[Assistant] Obama at that moment gets a real glimpse of the future. Disaster's coming.


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[Assistant] He wants to restructure the major too big to fail banks.


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[Assistant] Larry says, what if we don't bail out these institutions? What if we restructure them? There's gonna be blood on Wall Street, a lot of it.


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[Assistant] Tim says the stress tests are enough. It's real action. Summers says no, it's not. It's watchful waiting. Tim is livid. It's not watchful waiting.


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[Assistant] It's not just waiting around. It's real. And Larry said, you know, what you're doing is not action that's needed. You need to pull off the bandaid.


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[Assistant] Walking into that meeting, these guys have not been this nervous since they're in nursery school.


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[Assistant] They're ultimately powerful, sovereign men atop their institutions, but now they know that they really could get whacked.


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[Assistant] What's interesting is that the next statements and the rest of the meeting, essentially is Obama skinning back as fast as he can on that pitchforks, uh, punch.


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[Assistant] And he says, right after that, what we have gentlemen, is a public relations disaster that's turning into a political disaster. And I'm here to help.


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[Assistant] Rahm Emanuel's quite forceful now. Emanuel, usually a guy favoring Do No Harm, favoring Wall Street, says, Now's the time, Mr. President, for Old Testament justice.


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[Assistant] Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blank find it wasn't like the speech was scheduled, uh, you know, uh, without notice. They just had better things to do that day.


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[Assistant] Those who attend from Wall Street, you know, they're checking their watches.


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[Assistant] You know, they're talking about their summer vacations. Somehow they have survived.


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[Assistant] I don't want them thinking we're doing anything but trying to help you.


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[Assistant] Well, it could be a dog. Hard to say. So where'd this dog go? The one that did this. What, what does that matter, Pete? Seriously? I wanna know how believable her story is.


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[Assistant] I've got a good bullshit detector, Luke. That's why you can never beat me at poker. You don't!


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[Assistant] Well, I'm sure I ain't willing to leave a little girl in the woods to die when we got a doctor with us that can make a call. We can have Carlos take a look at it first.


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[Assistant] She already told us she was with a friend and then got lost. She was bit by a dog.


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[Assistant] Finger off the trigger, son. I ain't your son. Don't be like that, man. It's alright. Boy's got his mom's temper. Come on.


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[Assistant] This doesn't change a thing. She hasn't done anything to us!


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[Assistant] God damn it, don't even start. Any of you would have done the same if you were half as tough as this little girl. So just save it.


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[Assistant] I hate to interrupt, but I'm out there standing watch and I can't help but notice this place is lit up like a goddamn beacon in the middle of the woods.


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[Assistant] Now get your winks while you can, cause we're going fishing at first light. Couple fresh brookies for dinner.


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[Assistant] How you holding up? I heard you got an earful from Rebecca last night. Once she gets going, there's no bringing her back. Her bark's worse than her bite.


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[Assistant] By that I mean taught proper. Any idiot with a finger can shoot.


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[Assistant] Came across this beautiful 13 point buck just standing there on a ridgeline.


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[Assistant] The boy takes the rifle, he lines up the shot just like I taught him and then I hear him start whining. He turns to me and he says, I can't do it. I can't shoot it, Uncle Pete. Please don't make me shoot it.


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[Assistant] Why didn't you wait? You want us standing around while you piss on a tree? You know where the river is, boy. Anyway.


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[Assistant] So I grabbed the gun out of his hand before the big buck runs off, went bang.


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[Assistant] And of course the buck gets away.


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[Assistant] Cause you almost blew her face off yesterday. Seems relevant. Trying to let her know it's nothing personal with you.


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[Assistant] Because you're always giving everyone else a hard time. I apologized already. She accepted.


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[Assistant] So anyway, I found that buck later that season. Shot it right in the neck. Brought it up to my sister's figure and she'd want to freeze some of the meat. Nick didn't speak to me for weeks. Sometimes you gotta play a role. Even if it means people you love hate you for it.


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[Assistant] Not sure yet, but it ain't your average gang of thugs. That much I know. Think about it. You're Carver, what do you do?


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[Assistant] Check those guys there. Be careful. Some of them might still be moving.


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[Assistant] Calm down and think about it, son. Calm down? We gotta get out of here now! Jesus Christ, get a hold of yourself!


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[Assistant] No it don't. One of these folks might still be alive. And they might just be inclined to tell us who did this. We gotta do this now. Stay here. Keep searching these. This is a dumb idea.


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[Assistant] You know Nick, I don't like this either. But sooner or later you're gonna have to realize a simple truth.


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[Assistant] What, that you're an asshole? That nobody in this world is ever gonna give a god damn whether you like something or not. You gotta grow up, son. Whatever. Come on, Clem. You wanna be useful? Keep a lookout on that tree line. Whoever did this might still be out there, waiting for another sucker to stumble across this mess, just like baiting a fish.


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[Assistant] Good. He'll fit right in with this outfit. Look, just keep your head on straight.


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[Assistant] Damnit. More on that side. You check out these ones. See if there's anything on them that'll tell us who they were.


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[Assistant] In all of American history, that we were that close to a complete meltdown.


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[Assistant] To produce, to show action, to do as much as possible to get out there with some


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[Assistant] Let's get through this. Let's be pragmatic. Let's not shoot for the moon and miss. Let's accomplish as much as we can, but let's do it


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[Assistant] With the certainty that we know we can produce by taking this a little more cautiously.


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[Assistant] He's 47 years old, he looks like he's about 32.


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[Assistant] Our plan will help restart the flow of credit. It will help clean up and strengthen our banks.


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[Assistant] We want their balance sheets cleaner and stronger.


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[Assistant] The politics of a bailout. They had to throw their principles out the door and save the economy.


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[Assistant] AIG does not have the money in the bank to support the commitments it made.


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[Assistant] They had to throw their principles out the door and save the economy. And whatever criticism there would be of government intervention was a small price to pay for the deluge that would have occurred if AIG had collapsed.


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[Assistant] My life right now is a mix of a lot of hard work and exhausting never-ending projects and moments of absolute pure beauty where I lose myself in the presence of nature coming back to life. How can something be this perfect?