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Speaker 1: Richard Arnold's in the US for US this morning, Richard.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, A good morning.

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Speaker 1: Run all the executive orders from Donald Trump. And boy

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Speaker 1: there were a few, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well lots of them on the desk, there weren't there.

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Speaker 2: The opening move saw this flurry of presidential orders signed

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Speaker 2: as the documents steen were held up by Trump for

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Speaker 2: the cameras. Some of these will wind up in court,

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Speaker 2: but the most contentious, to begin with is his pardon

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Speaker 2: for almost all of those jailed or even tried over

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Speaker 2: the riots that he was capital so four years ago.

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Speaker 2: That includes those found guilty of assaulting police on that

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Speaker 2: day with all kinds of things baseball bats, flag poles,

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Speaker 2: pepper spray, and on and on. Some one hundred and

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Speaker 2: forty officers were injured in an assault on the US

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Speaker 2: capital spurred on by Trump. The injuries included crushed spinal discs,

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Speaker 2: traumatic brain injuries, and they heart attack. President Trump has

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Speaker 2: called it a day of love, quote unquote. One of

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Speaker 2: those hurt was a sergeant in the Capitol Police, r Q. Gannell,

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Speaker 2: who says that he and his fellow officers were punch

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Speaker 2: kicked and sprayed with chemicals. This man had served in

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Speaker 2: a Reich with the American military, but said that during

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Speaker 2: this he felt himself losing breath and thought, quote, this

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Speaker 2: is how I'm going to die. He now says he

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Speaker 2: feels betrayed by the pardons. President Trump has taken to

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Speaker 2: calling those tried and convicted in all of this hostages,

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Speaker 2: and often played a recording of some of them singing

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Speaker 2: the Stars and Stripes Forever, the national anthem over a

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Speaker 2: phone from prison. Some other Republicans have taken to calling

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Speaker 2: the Capital rioters tourists, and as he pardoned them, freeing

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Speaker 2: them most of them anyway of any record of their charges,

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Speaker 2: and commuting the sentences of a handful of others. Trump

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Speaker 2: said this from the Oval Office, approximately fifteen hundred full part. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: That surprise, seemingly some Republicans who said it would not

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Speaker 2: be right to pardon those found guilty of violent acts.

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Speaker 2: Here's what the incoming Vice President J. D. Vance said

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Speaker 2: just days ago.

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Speaker 1: If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be pardoned.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, he says, Well, they have all been pardoned. There

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Speaker 2: was no promised review of exactly what was done by

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Speaker 2: these individuals. They all get out of jail free. Trump

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Speaker 2: will also formalize the appointment of Mico Rubio, whom he

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Speaker 2: once called Little Mico, as the new US Secretary of State.

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Speaker 2: Rubio said soon after the January of the sixth Riots

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Speaker 3: Entire life with and alongside people who came to America

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Speaker 3: fleeing countries plagued by political violence and by chaos. Today

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Speaker 3: America looked like the countries that they came here to

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Speaker 3: get away from. Vladimir Putin loved everything that happened today

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Speaker 3: because what happened is better than anything he could have

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Speaker 3: ever come up with.

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Speaker 2: But today, in his first round of media interviews since

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Speaker 2: getting the Secretary of State post, it was no comment.

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Speaker 3: We're going to focus on what makes America stronger and

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Speaker 3: more prosperous and safer. I'm not going to engage in

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Speaker 3: domestic play.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't want to talk about the capital riot stuff. Meantime,

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Speaker 2: those freed already include the leaders of the so called

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Speaker 2: Proud Boys and Oathkeepers to extremist groups who were found

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Speaker 2: guilty of helping to plot the riots. One Enrico Tario

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Speaker 2: were serving a twelve year prison term and other Stuart Roades,

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Speaker 2: eighteen years. Both of them are out now now a

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Speaker 2: group of their backs cheered outside the prison, happy days

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Speaker 2: while the guy with the horns, you know, the so

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Speaker 2: called QAnon Sharman. Everyone knows the picture. I guess has

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Speaker 2: said about his pardon quote, I got a pardon, baby.

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Speaker 2: He adds quote, I'm going to buy some bleeping, bleeping guns.

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Speaker 2: I love this country. Trump also called for a no

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Speaker 2: US citizenship automatically for people simply born in this country

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Speaker 2: from non citizen parents. That is a right that is

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Speaker 2: in the United States Constitution. So that is one presidential

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Speaker 2: document that I guess has said for future review by

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Speaker 2: the courts.

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Speaker 1: All right, Richard, just before we go the Trump Biden

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Speaker 1: conversations and the beast on the way to the White House, etc.

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Speaker 1: Amy Klobyscher was privy to some of them. Do we

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Speaker 1: know what was said?

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Speaker 2: Well, we do a little. She wouldn't give all of

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Speaker 2: the details, but O to be a flow in the wall. Right,

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Speaker 2: That's what many must have been thinking, because they not

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Speaker 2: only drove together to the inauguration site in the beast,

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Speaker 2: but they also you know, they had tea in the

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Speaker 2: White House together. This is the traditional thing traditions that

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Speaker 2: Trump denied Biden four years back. Anyway, we know something

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Speaker 2: of what was said for the hour or so that

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Speaker 2: these two men's been together, because Clovershaw was one of

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Speaker 2: the lawmakers who went along as chaperones. Happily they did

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Speaker 2: not need to physically intervene, but they encouraged the two

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Speaker 2: men to speak a lot about football. Klobashaw, who was

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Speaker 2: the Demopocratic Party rep, says they did speak about the

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Speaker 2: LA fires.

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Speaker 4: A lot of discussion about the fires in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 4: I made a strong pitch. I said that I was

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Speaker 4: glad that the new president is visiting Los Angeles, and

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Speaker 4: we talked about the firefighters, but we also talked about

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Speaker 4: the rebuilding and the fact that the Olympics are coming

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Speaker 4: up and this will be a moment for LA to

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Speaker 4: rise from the ashes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty twenty eight. The winds are four carnts back

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Speaker 2: to the hurricane strengths today, so the fire threat is

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Speaker 2: not done yet. The two men also talked about the

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Speaker 2: Middle East cease fire deal. Of course, when he spoke

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Speaker 2: publicly about that, Donald Trump made no mention of Joe

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Speaker 2: Biden's role in Middle East diplomacy.

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Speaker 1: All right, Richard, thank you for that. Richard Arnold, our

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