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the White House. I'm Frank Ordonez, I cover the

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Walsh, I cover Congress. And we

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begin our Friday Roundup today with the news

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of Donald Trump's visit to Capitol Hill this

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week. It was his first

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trip there since the January 6th riot. And

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Deirdre, I want to begin with you because you cover

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Congress. Tell us a bit about what

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this visit was for, what was the purpose of it?

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Well, top congressional Republicans said they

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invited Trump to talk about planning

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their agenda for 2025. Obviously,

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Republican leaders are hoping to

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retake control of the Senate, grow their

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majority in the House, and elect

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Trump and have this full

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control, if you will, of two

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branches of government to enact their

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agenda. It didn't end

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up being a lot of policy talk. I

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think it was more of a political

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rallying event to

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put out this message that the

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Republican Party is unified around former

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President Trump, and they're headed into the elections,

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and they're all on the same page. I

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think the image that sort of

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of biology, of,

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you know, I just, I think it's, oh, and I

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should also note, allegedly, this

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is a record distance crossing

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for a lion. Wow. All

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right. What about you, dear Joanne? The

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thing that I can't let go of this week is this

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graduation speech, and I love graduation season.

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I love it. I think I know

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where you go. That was done

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by Roger Federer, who I have

22:26

to admit, I'm more of a Rafa Nadal fan. And

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I thought, why is Roger Federer invited

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to give a commencement speech? He didn't

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go to college. He started competing professionally

22:36

as a teenager. So he

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gave this commencement speech at

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Dartmouth College. And I think that it

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was a fascinating speech. And I think it was

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like such a great message for

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people graduating from college to hear from

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this guy that most people think was just

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this amazing winner. He had all these championships

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and he focused a lot on losing. And

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the fact that he won, in his

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words, almost 80% of his matches. But

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he said the thing that people

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don't realize is that he lost

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54% of the points in

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those matches. He won 54% of the

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points. So

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think about that. He almost lost as much

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as he won and what he learned from

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that. The truth is, whatever game

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you play in life, sometimes you're going

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to lose a point, a match,

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a season, a job, it's

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a roller coaster with many ups and downs. And

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it's natural, but negative energy

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is wasted energy. You want

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to become a master at overcoming hard

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moments. That is, to me, the

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sign of a champion. I love

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this. We actually shared it on our family group

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WhatsApp chat. We have one of those. Because

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I used to play tennis as well. I did too.

23:48

I did too. One of these, I did

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not know that, Deirdre. But you do lose a lot of points

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in tennis. And it doesn't mean you

23:54

lose a point. But you can still win. And then

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what do you take away when you lose so much?

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