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We got to begin with fundamental transformation.

The Obama administration, when it came into office in 2009, in the midst of the financial crisis,

the meltdown of the automobile manufacturers,

the Lehman Brothers, everything else happening in 2008-2009,

Barack Obama pledged to fundamentally transform America.

He was never going to let a crisis go to waste, if you recall,

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