Adam Wren
speaker
230 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 20 Apr
Adam Wren’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Last Thursday, we expressed our own concerns on this broadcast and even said we would appreciate the opportunity to speak with the president-elect himself.
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On Friday, we were given the opportunity to do just that.
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Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with President-elect Trump.
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It was the first time we have seen him in seven years.
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What we did agree on was to restart communications.
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My father often spoke with world leaders with whom he and the United States profoundly disagreed.
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That's a task shared by reporters and commentators alike.
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We had not spoken to President Trump since March of 2020, other than a personal call Joe made to Trump on the morning after the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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In this meeting, President Trump was tearful.
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He was upbeat.
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He seemed interested in finding common ground with Democrats on some of the most divisive issues.
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And for those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back, why wouldn't we?
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Why wouldn't we?
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Five years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the country.
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We have been as clear as we know how in expressing our deep concerns about President Trump's actions and words in the coarsening of public debate.
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But for nearly 80 million Americans,
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Election denialism, public trials on January 6th were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote.
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Joe and I realized it's time to do something different.
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And that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him.
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Yeah.
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