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Today’s State-run Media Report, Courtesy of ABC/Obama News

By CFIF Staff
Thursday, June 18 2009

Good Afternoon. This is Charles Gibson reporting of, by and from the White House. It’s been a really cool day here so far, and it’s going to get really cooler when we talk to President Obama about health care, later in the broadcast. We were going to open the broadcast with that, but today has been so really, really cool that we just had to tell you about that first. We were not allowed to broadcast Sasha and Malia actually getting up and brushing their teeth, but we know they did that, and very well, I might add, because the first press release of the day told us so.…

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