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B1 Intermediate English 11:06 Educational

Trump's Weird Turkey Pardon Speech; Comey & James Cases Tossed; MTG Resigns: A Closer Look

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Learning Stats

B1

CEFR Level

5/10

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Subtitles (279 segments)

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-There's a lot going on in MAGA world this week.

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Two prosecutions against the president's

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political enemies were thrown out.

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One of the most visible MAGA supporters in the country

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is resigning from Congress,

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and the President has started dressing like a professor

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of English Lit at Swarthmore.

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[ As Trump ] Now, let's turn to page 475

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and see what Nicholas Nickleby has been up to.

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For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look."

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♪♪

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The President participated in the annual tradition

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of pardoning a turkey today.

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And let me start by saying, no matter who the president is,

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this is a weird tradition.

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But as weird as it is, Trump can always make it weirder.

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Again, this was supposed to be a turkey pardoning ceremony.

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-This was a big day.

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It's a pardon day for a very important beast.

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I have determined

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that last year's turkey pardons are totally invalid,

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and I am officially pardoning them.

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Gang members, drug dealers,

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they poured into our country like we were stupid people.

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We're not stupid people anymore.

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I won't tell you about murders.

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We're having murders, like, a lot of murders.

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I don't talk about people being fat.

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The governor is a big, fat slob.

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You can walk with your family down the middle of any street.

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Go to a restaurant, you won't get in.

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We have a department of everything.

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You know what that is?

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I think that's called the White House.

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The pardons of about every other person

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that was pardoned other than, uh...

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Where's Hunter?

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No. Hunter's was good.

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That was the one pardon, Pam, that was good, right?

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The rest of them are all invalid.

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I don't know what the hell you're going to do about that,

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but that's -- Now, we're going to take a little of the joke,

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and that is a mess.

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-I think those turkeys were standing there being like,

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"Just [bleep] kill us.

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Put us out of our misery."

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Also, don't say the word hunter near some turkeys.

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You're gonna freak them out.

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They don't follow politics.

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They don't know what you're talking about.

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They're gonna think this whole thing is a trap.

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[ As Trump ] Damn it, Gobble!

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I told you this pardon thing was bull[bleep]!

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He doesn't have legal jurisdiction over birds."

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By the way, you guys,

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it did get weirder than what we already showed you

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