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Speaker 1: we'll do a deep dive tomorrow. Luke Sprinkle from Alpha

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Speaker 1: coverage on this. I had to find a story from

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Speaker 1: Gender Justice applauding the er passage by a Senate Judiciary committee.

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Speaker 1: I don't expect this to go anywhere. Just like it

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Speaker 1: did in the last session, be that as it made.

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Speaker 1: The Democrats are once again moving towards this ridiculous equal

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Speaker 1: rights amendment. Gender Justice applauding this says for our trans

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Speaker 1: neighbors facing a coordinated effort to erase them from public life,

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Speaker 1: and for our immigrant families terrorized in their own backyards,

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Speaker 1: this er is a declaration you belong here and your

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Speaker 1: rights are not up for debate. It's basically an equal

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Speaker 1: and false narratives. If you want the truth of what

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Speaker 1: this is all about, look no further or listen to

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Speaker 1: parent Natalie Casper slamming the deceptive and misleading Equal Rights

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Speaker 2: Here's what she had to say yesterday.

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Speaker 3: I oppose a proposed equal rights amendment to the Minnesota

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Speaker 3: Constitution Bill SF four seventy three.

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Speaker 4: I oppose the removal of.

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Speaker 3: Religion or creed and the additions of pregnancy, gender, and

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Speaker 3: religious beliefs of a variety of Minnesotans and the first Amendment,

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Speaker 3: which enshrines our rights to be able to practice our

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Speaker 3: deceptive and misleading. Pregnancy means enshrining the right to premeditated

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Speaker 3: murder of human life. This does not protect Minnesotans, It

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Speaker 3: kills them. This strips away the rights of thousands of

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Speaker 2: The number one cause of death in.

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Speaker 3: This state of Minnesota is abortion. The premeditated murder of

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Speaker 3: human beings murdered is not a right. This is a

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Speaker 3: violation against Minnesotans who believe that God alone has the

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Speaker 3: especially the most vulnerable in the womb, are created with

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Speaker 2: This bill is gender. This term gender, according.

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Speaker 3: To this bill, is being used to destroy the bodies,

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Speaker 3: the minds, and the lives of children and adults in

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Speaker 3: lying about the people's identity and their mental health conditions.

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Speaker 2: This term is being.

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Speaker 3: Used to violate Title nine, which is supposed to protect

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Speaker 3: females in all spaces and places.

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Speaker 4: Especially bathrooms and sports.

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Speaker 3: As a mother of four daughters, this issue is very

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Speaker 3: protect them from males invading their privacy, their safe spaces,

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Speaker 3: to protect all biological female citizens by harming them instead.

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Speaker 3: This violates the religious beliefs of Minnesota, who believe that God,

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Speaker 3: the creator of humans, alone, has the authority to define

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Speaker 2: Is with a biological reality that.

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Speaker 3: Reflects that objective truth through the sexual reproductive parts that

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Speaker 3: anti baby, anti children, anti religion, and potentially anti parental rights.

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Speaker 3: All Minnesota citizens should have the religious and parental rights

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Speaker 2: Please vote no.

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Speaker 1: Just fantastic commentary. Again that's coming from parent Natalie Casper,

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Speaker 2: That's what it's designed to do.

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Speaker 1: But it also highlights why elections have consequences and why

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Speaker 1: All right, I want to get to this ridiculous story

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Speaker 1: Hudson and his bill to make sure that people can't

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Speaker 1: with you. The residential protesting bill is being sold as

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Speaker 1: how delusional does one need to be to think that

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Speaker 1: argument by dfllers. Apparently this delusional listen to this exchange

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Representative Hudson.

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Speaker 1: And this is Athena Hollands, Representative Athena Hollins. He's a

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Speaker 1: wack a doodle too, as.

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Speaker 5: I understand it, Then you are basically saying that not

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Representative Hudson, thank you, mister Shaer, deferring to Represented

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Speaker 6: Pento's previous point, it's already illegal.

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Speaker 7: When you yeah, it's illegal. It's illegal to block the street, right,

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Speaker 7: it's illegal sidewalk Okay, So one hundred people are going

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Speaker 1: He's absolutely right. Of course, the problem is protesting. It's

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Speaker 1: this rings true when it comes to this Wisconsin based

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Speaker 1: a spice company with three twin Cities locations that it

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Speaker 1: it's taking on the Republican Party. A reader recently told

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Speaker 1: I'll get into the details of this next. Well, what's

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Speaker 1: comical about this is that Bill Penzie that runs Penzi's.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't even stand by his own convictions.

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Speaker 1: As I mentioned earlier, he wants all the benefits of

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Speaker 1: conservative capitalism and what it has to offer, all while

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Speaker 8: You can look all around you for afernery apocryphying, but

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Speaker 1: I can see Spice company with Minnesota locations devotes entire

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Speaker 1: piece from alphineuws not the first time that we have

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Speaker 1: We're done pretending the Republican Party's embrace of racism, covid lies,

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Speaker 1: pretending that these risks aren't risks.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I get that clear.

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Speaker 1: The company says, Conservative customers who are offended may be

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Speaker 1: happier filling their spice racks someplace else. If you need

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Speaker 1: our customer, I'm sad to say you might be happier elsewhere.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, the company makes it clear that

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Speaker 1: Oh but see, you can't do that, you know, because

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Speaker 1: when musicians and artists come out and say I don't

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Speaker 1: page and argues that spices have historically been a driving

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Speaker 2: It's a marketing ploy. Tell that it comes down to.

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Speaker 8: I've known Penzis since their hippie dad made the company,

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Speaker 8: but nobody cared because he didn't insult his customers. Then

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Speaker 8: great stuff, but you don't get all the opinions.

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Speaker 1: The racist rhetoric isn't limited to the company website. Depend

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Speaker 1: Ze's spices, Facebook and xpa x pages feature similar messaging

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Speaker 1: in many of its social media posts. This past MLK Weekend,

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Speaker 1: they had a sale named Republicans Are Racist Weekend. Boy,

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Speaker 1: what a what a way to honor Martin Luther King.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he would have been so proud that Bill

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Speaker 1: Penzi this commy jack Jackwagon. You might want to buy

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Speaker 1: your spices someplace else, but if you want to give

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Speaker 2: I suppose it's working for him.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, Penzi used a customer email newsletter

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Speaker 2: Whistleblowers speaks out. Have you heard about this?

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Speaker 10: I remember Wall saying last week that he was the

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Speaker 1: minileaf dot com. Last year, I lived for nearly five

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Speaker 1: for immigrants, she writes, Yet, amid controversy over Minnesota government's

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Speaker 1: said they hadn't heard the city assigned the agreement, several

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Speaker 1: said they expected wide spread.

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Speaker 2: Support for it.

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Speaker 1: It's a conservative town and we believe in the law

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Speaker 1: set A veteran who recently purchased a bar in bistro

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Speaker 1: in the city. We try to keep politics out of

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Speaker 1: our bar. If we have people yaking, we tell them

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Speaker 1: to take it outside. He and a few patrons sitting

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Speaker 1: in a U shaped bar this week said they think

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Speaker 1: it's a good idea for local officers to receive additional

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Speaker 1: training and be able to help ICE agents with immigration

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Speaker 1: enforcement if asked, and I agree. Now a story that

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Speaker 1: was covered in the Star Tribute but not anywhere else.

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Speaker 1: This story, however, is all over the place. Not a

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Speaker 1: huge surprise. Did you hear there's an ICE whistleblower that's

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Speaker 1: right spoke out yesterday in front of Congress. Here is

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Speaker 1: the story and I'll provide you some further details and context,

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Speaker 1: but here's the coverage from Fox nine and.

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Speaker 11: Randy Dhs denies that it removed any training requirements for

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Speaker 11: a new ICE recruits, saying it's actually added hours, But

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Speaker 11: a former ICE lawyer who trained those recruits says that

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Speaker 11: is just not true.

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Speaker 12: They see all of the legal instructions regarding use of force.

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Speaker 12: This means that cadets are not taught what it means

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Speaker 12: to be objectively reasonable, the very standard which the law

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Speaker 12: requires them to meet when deciding whether or not to

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Speaker 12: use deadly force.

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Speaker 11: That's Ryan Schwank there, who says ICE cut the length

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Speaker 11: of its training program by nearly half. He says that

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Speaker 11: many recruits didn't even understand the basics before they hit

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Speaker 11: the streets with a gun and a badge.

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Speaker 12: Even in the final days of training, the cadets cannot

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Speaker 12: demonstrate a solid grasp of the tactics or the law

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Speaker 12: required to perform their jobs. It's shocking that anyone would

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Speaker 12: think this is safe or responsible.

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Speaker 11: The shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in

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Speaker 11: Minneapolis also came up during that hearing. Today, so did

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Speaker 11: two high profile arrests, including that of a Liberian immigrant

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Speaker 11: who ice arrested and then released twice. A federal judge

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Speaker 11: ruled Garrison Gibson's arrest unconstitutional because agents did not have

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Speaker 11: a judicial warrant.

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Speaker 2: His wife spoke to the panel.

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Speaker 13: The officers walked up to my door and started ramming

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Speaker 13: the door. They hit the door three times until the

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Speaker 13: door popped open. My stomach fell. I heard the door pop,

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Speaker 13: and I realized we were no longer protected. Ten officers

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Speaker 13: that were all armed were standing in front of me

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Speaker 13: and my family. Words can never be sufficient for me

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Speaker 13: to portray what sorts of horror.

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Speaker 2: We felt in this moment.

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Speaker 11: And in a statement, DHS denied that it's taking shortcuts

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Speaker 11: and training, saying, in part quote, despite false claims from

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Speaker 11: the media and sanctuary politicians, no training hours have been cut.

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Speaker 11: Our officers receive extensive firearm training, are taught de escalation tactics,

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Speaker 11: and receive Fourth and Fifth Amendment comprehensive instruction in DHS

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Speaker 11: noted also the new agents get on the job training

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Speaker 11: as well, which it tracks and monitors in the newsroom tonight,

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Speaker 11: Mike Benzoni, Fox nine.

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Speaker 10: Hey, buddy, you gotta wonder that whistleblower what's in his

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Speaker 10: secret bank accounts in the keeymas from some ngo?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he indeed there, h Lou that story from

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Speaker 1: Fox nine. First off, why would anybody believe anyone on

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Speaker 1: the left right now? So the Dems response to this

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Speaker 1: shocking revelation, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons appears to have

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Speaker 1: fled under oath because you see, Acting ICE Director Tom

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Speaker 1: Lyons had testified under oath in a recent sent and

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Speaker 1: hearing that the controversial memo on home entries was officially

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Speaker 1: disseminated to agents and integrated into training. The whistleblower contradicts this,

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Speaker 1: claiming it was kept in secret and only shown privately

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Speaker 1: without copies allowed, raising perjury concerns.

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Speaker 2: Here's an individual who.

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Speaker 1: Worked for ICE for approximately five months before he went

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Speaker 1: and resigned, who conveniently shows up at the end of

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Speaker 1: Operation Metro Surge when the controversy is dying down, and

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Speaker 1: suddenly now has a list of complaints that match perfectly

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Speaker 1: with everything that's been said from Democrat politicians to those

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Speaker 1: on the ground. So the shocking revelation Acting ICE Director

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Speaker 1: Todd Lyons appears to have led under oath or.

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Speaker 2: Maybe this guy did.

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Speaker 1: The guy with nothing to lose the current loan whistleblower,

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Speaker 1: which again really helps to further the narrative that ICE

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Speaker 1: is systemically broken.

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Speaker 2: And who just happens to do.

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Speaker 1: And repeat all of the claims made by the irrational

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Speaker 1: anti ICE obstructors. I can't believe any claims coming from

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Speaker 1: Democrats right now, and in this case, it's all just

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Speaker 1: too convenient. To that point, I want to share this

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Speaker 1: with you. NBC News did a story on protesters on

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Speaker 1: camera screaming at ICE agents through a megaphone to their faces.

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Speaker 1: An ICE officer goes and pushes the megaphone away from

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Speaker 1: his face, and NBC News says the ICE officers were

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Speaker 1: the ones that crossed the line, and we're violent to

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Speaker 1: the protesters.

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Speaker 2: Listen to this.

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Speaker 14: This incident reflects the claims we're seeing across the country

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Speaker 14: protesters who say it's the ICE agent's initiating physical contact.

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Speaker 8: Okay.

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Speaker 14: Terra endodies were at the entrance of a Homeland security

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Speaker 14: complex last Thursday night in Phoenix, the side of protests

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Speaker 14: in recent weeks.

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Speaker 15: They were all standing there and we were yelling, and

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Speaker 15: the one smacked the megaphone out of my hands. Really,

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Speaker 15: nothing really happened. I was more in shock and I

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Speaker 15: was like, are you serious? Like did you really just

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Speaker 15: do that? So of course I've kept yelling at him,

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Speaker 15: and he smacked it again. This time it hit Denise

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Speaker 15: me in the side of her face right here.

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Speaker 13: Are you serious?

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Speaker 2: What do these people expect it's supposed to happen?

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Speaker 1: By the way, I go back to the Matt little

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Speaker 1: conversation we had on on Friday, the former mayor and

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Speaker 1: he's now running back for office, and made the claim

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Speaker 1: that he was chasing around ICE agents before they started

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Speaker 1: chasing him. Ended up driving back to his house, had

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Speaker 1: a confrontation with him. I mean, what are they going

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Speaker 1: to do? And what did they expect to happen? What

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Speaker 1: did this individual getting in the face of ice with

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Speaker 1: a megaphone?

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Speaker 2: What do you think the outcome was going to be?

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Speaker 2: And what were they hoping to accomplish?

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Speaker 13: How long?

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Speaker 4: Then a third time the agent strikes.

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Speaker 5: Someone so quickly thereafter he did it again and it

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Speaker 5: hit her and busted her lip open and hard lip

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Speaker 5: was bleeding.

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Speaker 4: I first appears to pull back. His colleague.

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Speaker 14: The women filed a complain against ICE with the state

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Speaker 14: attorney general and are asking Homeland Security to investigate the agent.

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Speaker 1: They should expect the agency to do an investigation.

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Speaker 14: Retired police sergeant Paul Brown has taught courses on police

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Speaker 14: tactics and says the video alone does not.

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Speaker 4: Show the ICE officers' actions are justified.

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Speaker 1: If the threat is a physical threat is made against

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Speaker 1: an officer, or an officer's assaulted in any way, then

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Speaker 1: that officer would be totally justified.

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Speaker 2: He says.

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Speaker 14: If the women were trespassing, an arrest might be warranted.

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Speaker 14: The protesters were standing in a parking lot of the

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Speaker 14: Attorney General's office, which is state property. It connects to

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Speaker 14: federal property where ICE agents come and go. ICE's local

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Speaker 14: office agreed to look at our video. They have not

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Speaker 14: responded to questions about the incident. Brown says ICE not

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Speaker 14: acknowledging that these clashes should be investigated hurts public trust.

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Speaker 14: I'm very disappointed in what I've seen in ICE thus far.

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Speaker 1: Of course you are, of course, because that's the narrative,

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Speaker 1: and they will not deviate from the narrative.

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Speaker 2: They're very consistent with.

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Speaker 1: That, And they found one guy who happened to be

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Speaker 1: in ICE for five months who resigned and then shows

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Speaker 1: up to be a whistleblower. And we're just supposed to

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Speaker 1: believe outright what he has to say without anything to

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Speaker 1: go and back it up. And I present to you

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Speaker 1: that NBC story because why would you take Democrats seriously

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Speaker 1: at all? Get to a few of your talkbacks about

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Speaker 1: the whistle blower. Let's go here to the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: So sad for that waive of the immigrant.

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Speaker 2: How does she think that the January sixth people felt

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Speaker 2: when they started coming to their doors doing the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but they don't care because that was, you know,

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Speaker 1: that was legitimate. That was an legitimate use of force

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Speaker 1: against individuals involved in what's a place on that day.

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Speaker 9: Good morning John Rich here in regards to this ICE

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Speaker 9: agent whistleblower saying that they cut out the use of

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Speaker 9: force training, I would have to call a hard bs

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Speaker 9: on that, because to be licensed as a police officer

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Speaker 9: in a state of Minnesota, you have to go through

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Speaker 9: skills training, which is a use of force training, and

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Speaker 9: in your curriculum for your degree, you have to go

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Speaker 9: through constitutional law and use of force training. So this

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Speaker 9: is BS.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Rich listen to reinforce your point here. This

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Speaker 1: Ryan is alleged former ICE instructor who resigned right claiming

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Speaker 1: major cuts to training, removing constitutional use of force classes,

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Speaker 1: to rush hires for deportations, talking about secret memos and

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Speaker 1: warrantless home services. The response from DHS was no hours

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Speaker 1: or requirements were cut, program streamlined fifty six days plus

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Speaker 1: twenty eight and OJT with a full fourth and fifth Amendment.

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Speaker 1: Firearms and ds galaning training retained. Many hires, to Rich's point,

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Speaker 1: are prior law enforcement professionals. Document show, but officials call

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Speaker 1: call it efficiency, not violations. Ongoing disputes but not proven

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Speaker 1: illegal actions. I just find the whole thing all too convenient.

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Speaker 1: That's suddenly out of nowhere. Hey, we got a guy,

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Speaker 1: let's get him and testify as soon as humanly possible.

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Speaker 2: Keeping with the theme of why would you trust Democrats?

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Speaker 1: A Democrat congresswoman out of Wisconsin talks about putting whole

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Speaker 1: milk back in our schools, but she says that's a

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Speaker 1: bad thing.

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Speaker 13: Please ask for the science based regiments, not whatever our.

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Speaker 8: Junior is getting kickbacks on, or whatever.

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Speaker 16: Whole milk white supremacy dog whistling.

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Speaker 2: That's happening right now.

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Speaker 14: I'm getting a little too political, but.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: A Democrat congresswoman claims that putting whole milk back on

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Speaker 1: our school is a white supremacy dog whistle. And we'll

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Speaker 1: end on this just enough time to squeak it.

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Speaker 2: In yet again.

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers claiming that Wisconsin would employed overnight

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Speaker 1: if it didn't have illegal aliens.

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Speaker 16: If I had a chance, and I knew it, and

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Speaker 16: I knew it would happen an impact, I'd tell them

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Speaker 16: to leave the immigrants Aaron, Wisconsin alone. They're the ones

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Speaker 16: that that milk, our cows are the ones that work

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Speaker 16: in our.

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Speaker 2: Factories.

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Speaker 16: If they go after those folks, our economy will implode overnight.

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Speaker 2: He should know that.

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Speaker 16: I mean, if he doesn't know that, then frankly, he

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Speaker 16: shouldn't be president.

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Speaker 1: And the economy would implode overnight if it wasn't for

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Speaker 1: all the illegal aliens. Tomorrow on the show, the letter

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Speaker 1: is going all in on this being an ice pandemic.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at an editorial right now, the learning loss

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Speaker 1: from the ice pandemic. For a couple of weeks there

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Speaker 1: they were just kind of tinkering with the idea that

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Speaker 1: this was like COVID, but because COVID was a universally

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Speaker 1: hated thing, now Ice is like COVID and it should

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Speaker 1: be universally hated. Plus in our argument put forward for

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Speaker 1: the people of Minneapolis to win the Nobel Peace Prize,

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Speaker 1: I'll give you details on tomorrow show. If you missed

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Speaker 1: any portion of today's broadcast, check out the podcast available

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Speaker 1: up on the iHeartRadio app within mirror moments. I hope

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Speaker 1: you have a fantastic rest of your Tuesday, and I

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Speaker 1: will talk to you tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 2: Just after six am. Mah. Millions of dollars of stolen

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Speaker 2: money spent on this