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At a press briefing on Monday, Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) spoke about former President Trump's NYC hush money trial.

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00:00 I'm Eric Burleson from Southwest Missouri and I'm here to send a message from the people
00:07 that I represent.
00:08 The people who are distraught with what they see this country doing to one of their favorite
00:13 presidents.
00:14 A man who was an entrepreneur and successful in every way prior to running for office.
00:20 But has seen the institutions of this country devolve into something that's trying to be
00:29 corrupted just to be able to remove him from office or to stop him from coming back to
00:34 office.
00:35 They want me to send a message that they're praying for President Trump, that they support
00:40 him.
00:41 At the end of the day, he is their favorite president.
00:43 What's disturbing to me is I see that we are at a critical inflection point.
00:48 And that is that if we have Lee Justice, who's being threatened today, this judge has taken
00:57 the blindfold off of Lady Justice and instead is using a sword of punishment against his
01:03 political adversaries.
01:04 This is a judge who has made contributions to President Trump's opponent, Joe Biden.
01:11 This is a judge whose daughter is working for and profiting off of efforts raising money
01:19 for the Democratic Party, including my colleagues Dan Goldman and others.
01:25 It's clearly a partisan effort and an attack against President Trump.
01:31 But what is really at stake here is our justice system.
01:36 Whether you like President Trump or don't like him, we all should agree that what's
01:43 more sacred is that we do not destroy America in the process.
01:47 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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