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Speaker 1: Stateside, Richard, how are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm well?

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Speaker 3: Good? Is?

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Speaker 1: I was pondering a moment to go higg Seth as

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Speaker 1: he ab gates two point zero.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. He's got a few issues though. As

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Speaker 2: the madness continues from the Capitol here, as Trump choices

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Speaker 2: for defense and security posts are raising, well a few

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Speaker 2: more questions. Aren't they doing the rounds right now? Is

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Speaker 2: Hecseth the Trump pick for Defense secretary? The biggest military

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Speaker 2: enterprise and existence? Of course, the New Yorker magazine has

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Speaker 2: come out with the disclosure that Pete Heigseth was forced

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Speaker 2: out of a couple of leadership roles in two military

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Speaker 2: veterans associations. This was they say, he used money from

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Speaker 2: the organizations to party, including one where he took his

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Speaker 2: staff as to a strip club and had to be

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Speaker 2: restrained apparently from jumping on stage with the dancing strippers.

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Speaker 2: While at another Veterans of the event, he got quote

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Speaker 2: totally slashed and had to be literally carried back to

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Speaker 2: his room. This in addition to the twenty seventeen sexual

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Speaker 2: assault allegation against him. Then there's the New York Toomes

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Speaker 2: publication of an email that heg Seth's mother sent to

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Speaker 2: him during this fellow's apparently difficult divorce in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 2: His mum wrote, in part, quote, I have no respect

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Speaker 2: for any man that belittles, lies, sheets, sleeps around, and

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Speaker 2: uses women for his own parent ego. You are that man.

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Speaker 2: End quote. She continued quote. We are on the side

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Speaker 2: of good and that is not you. We still love you,

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Speaker 2: but we are broken by your behavior and lack of

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Speaker 2: character on behalf of all the women, and I know

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Speaker 2: it's many you have abused in some way. I say,

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Speaker 2: get some help. In quote, his mum now is backing

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Speaker 2: away from this. Now has become public, and so she

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Speaker 2: retracted her remarks. A day later, she insists, so the

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Speaker 2: senators looking into his confirmation can assessful of that. Meantime,

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Speaker 2: Cash Betel, whom Trump has chosen to head the FBI,

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Speaker 2: where its enormous police powers, has been calling for top

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Speaker 2: FBI officials to be fired unless they are loyal to

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Speaker 2: the incoming president. In his twenty twenty three book entitled

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Speaker 2: Government Gangsters, he also includes an enemy's list. There are

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Speaker 2: sixty names of folks whom he calls members of the

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Speaker 2: deep state. She has this list, including the names of

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Speaker 2: the outgoing president Joe Biden, VP Coumway Harrison. On the

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Speaker 2: Battel Enemy's list is Bill bar transformer Attorney general now

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Speaker 2: a Trump critic, John Bolton, a former national security advisor

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Speaker 2: under Trump, now also a critic many lower level national

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Speaker 2: security figures. And Chris Ray, the current FBI director. So

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Speaker 2: it seems his confirmation hearings ahead going to be pretty interesting.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: So now one of your high drama stories, Richard, woman

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Speaker 1: no breaks lake? Yeah, what to do?

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Speaker 2: Right? This is all pretty amazing. This woman in Illinois

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Speaker 2: was driving in the early morning hours in his small

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Speaker 2: town as the south of Chicago breaks faiut she found

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Speaker 2: herself in a runaway car heading for a freezing lake.

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Speaker 2: She had the wherewithal who would be able to do this.

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Speaker 2: She was able to call police emergency and need how

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Speaker 2: my breaks last, stop, my corbold stop, my brakes aren't working. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: If she went into the frigid laker, chances of getting

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Speaker 2: out would be slim. So it is something that with

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Speaker 2: all this going on, she was sounding at times relatively come,

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Speaker 2: I'm twenty I cannot die today. Yeah, twenty weeks pregnant.

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Speaker 2: The police operator also remained relatively cool through it all.

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Speaker 3: You need to turn now, I'm scared. Turn right at

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Speaker 3: the next road. Okay. If you don't turn, you're gonna

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Speaker 3: go into a lake. We need you to turn. Okay.

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Speaker 2: That's when highway police arrived, and there was only one

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Speaker 2: thing to do. When of the police cars moved in

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Speaker 2: front of this woman's vehicle, so they backed into the thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I didn't mean to. It was the plan, of course,

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Speaker 2: the only way to save her life, police said, spray

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Speaker 2: out to make sure she was fine.

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Speaker 3: Ran up to that vehicle to make sure that it

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Speaker 3: was in park and that the driver was okay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's good. The two cars a bit deaded, but

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Speaker 2: right place, right time for this police intervention.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic, see in front of my Richard Donald State. So

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Speaker 1: she wasn't quite as calm by the individual, was she

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Speaker 1: really when you think about it. By the way, Gavin Newsom,

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Speaker 1: he's called a special legislative sision This is in California,

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Speaker 1: a to safe California from potential federal overreach. So what

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Speaker 1: they're doing is creating a new litigation fund of up

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Speaker 1: to twenty five million to support California's legal resources in

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Speaker 1: anticipation of policy proposals that would harm the state, and

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Speaker 1: you know what he's talking about. Of course. Meantime, Ontario,

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Speaker 1: while Justin's been down at marri Lago having dinner with

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Speaker 1: Donald Ontario, which is the biggest trading part of Canada

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Speaker 1: with the United States worried about these twenty five percent

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Speaker 1: tariffs led by Doug Ford.

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Speaker 3: It's like a.

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Speaker 1: Family member stabbing you right in the heart, he said. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: they've got about half a billion dollars worth of trade. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: They've launched an ad campaign which is there's going to

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Speaker 1: be signs at Washington, DC airports, They're going to be

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Speaker 1: on billboards, going to feature on Fox Sport apps in

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Speaker 1: key states, Run America advertised during the Football League games,

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Speaker 1: and on Fox News advertising the fact that you don't

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Speaker 1: want to put tariffs on Canadian goods. I'm just not sure.

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Speaker 1: I Mean, I love advertising and all that sort of stuff,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not sure you're going to change Trump's mind

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Speaker 1: with an campaign.

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