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Van Jones
@vanjones· Apr 5, 2018

You know, no it doesn't because it's taken so long. Listen, we have just been pulled apart as a society. It's not just the election tampering from the Russians. They have bots on both sides of every debate. Putin wants a dysfunctional…

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Mar 21, 2018

I think if these things had come out during the campaign, it wouldn't have made a lick of difference here. I think he would have still won the election by the same margin.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Mar 21, 2018

He views the world through (inaudible) we can't communicate it publicly whenever going to get better.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Mar 8, 2018

I would counsel, as a public relations person, short-term pain of admitting it and just coming clean on it is better than the long-term drip.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Mar 7, 2018

If Democrats win the House, they'll do what they do next year. But the only thing we ought to really care about here is getting this Mueller investigation conclude.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Mar 7, 2018

The President deserves credit for getting Chinese to help here. The Chinese trucks are not coming into North Korea.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Mar 7, 2018

It's the president's job to defend America. How many nights did we sit here wondering are we on the brink of nuclear war?

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Mar 7, 2018

I love John Bolton. And he is been -- I think he said the right attitude about despotic regimes like this for a long time.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Feb 25, 2018

Bump Stocks are a no-brainer. John Cornyn's strengthening of the NICS background check system, no-brainer.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Feb 22, 2018

The mandate says any criminal activity that we find is fair game. And so -- and that's the way the special prosecutor works.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Feb 22, 2018

Mueller's not done. You know, it's you -- what you have now is a situation where people who were as close to the Trump campaign as these people were, frankly, were the Trump campaign for a while, have these kinds of criminal activities…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Feb 19, 2018

Whenever this thing happens, if it's a Muslim, they want to politicize it within seconds. If it's a Mexican, build the wall. If it's a black person, more cops and prisons. But when it's a white kid, thoughts and prayers and nothing else.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Feb 19, 2018

We have to deal with the great recession in two wars. Everything that you guys criticize us for not doing in the 18 months that we had control of the government, it’s a little bit --

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Feb 19, 2018

These young people don't have to have anybody tell them, you, me, Democrat or Republican, anybody else that something has to change.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Feb 11, 2018

The idea that there's this whole new category of people who just, y'all ain't never going to be approved but here's some security documents anyway, that is new. It's weird. It's not normal. It's bad. It's risky. It's dangerous.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Feb 8, 2018

This President is so concerned about national security making sure that no bad information gets out there.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Feb 8, 2018

I would like to say a word for transparency here. I mean, I know some people didn't want any memos to come out, but once one came out, both should come out and at the end of the day, I think there are a lot of Americans who believe we can…

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Feb 8, 2018

I thought if one comes out, both should come out, and I think it strengthens the White House's argument about the Nunes memo if they show the confidence to let the Democratic memo come out.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jan 30, 2018

The president lied to the country. The president's son lied to the country. The president's lawyers lied to the country. The president lied to the country about a meeting with Russians. That is a big deal.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jan 30, 2018

You know, sometimes things are exactly what they appear to be. And you can spin and you can turn and you can twist. Here is what happened. They were up to no good. They went to a meeting with Russians and they were up to no good.

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