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I thought what Steve Bannon said was probably more chilling or more threatening than anything the president [Donald Trump]says, I mean, because he said, it's a constant day. We have to defeat the press.

Mark Shields

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
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