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Speaker 1: they are drawing down in Minnesota, Tom Holman announcing earlier

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Speaker 1: he will remove seven hundred ICE agents. They got three

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Speaker 1: want to encourage these kind of protesters to move to

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Speaker 1: other cities. Now. ICE is operating all over America and

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Speaker 1: But one of the reasons they're pulling out is they've

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Speaker 1: gotten about four thousand dangerous criminals off the street. Could

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Speaker 1: you imagine the federal governments in a force to remove

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Speaker 1: a little in Minnesota. Hey, the Grammy Awards, which was

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Speaker 1: Last year wasn't so hot. Grammy's hit fourteen million. That's

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Speaker 1: good for today's television. But you know, the good old days,

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Speaker 1: By the way, it's the last year for CBS and

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Speaker 1: But this is the last year. Now it's moving next

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Speaker 1: that silly guy, Jerry Nadler, That waddling, ridiculous looking figure,

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Speaker 1: speaking of domestic violence, So you know, mom, Donnie has

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Speaker 1: if there's a domestic violence situation, the husband and wife,

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Speaker 1: It's the most dangerous call you could respond to. Domestic

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Speaker 1: So Mamdani wants to send in the social workers. It's

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Speaker 2: when there is a violent situation, such as with the weapon,

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Speaker 1: now owned by Jeff Bezos. And if you got very

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Speaker 1: The employees are up in arms. There's a mutiny. They're outraged.

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Speaker 1: They can't believe it. But but if you go that partisan,

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Speaker 1: your own downfall, Bezos, What is he supposed to do

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Speaker 1: it out. Hey, the Kennedy Center, the rebuilding will begin.

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Speaker 1: Now you're going to hear fake news like The Washington Post,

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Speaker 1: It's not a Trump idea. The government has been planning

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Speaker 1: In fact, the projects expected to cost about two hundred million.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it was ast year ago Congress decided to

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Speaker 1: They voted in two hundred and fifty seven million to

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Speaker 1: repair Kennedy Center. So it has nothing to do with Trump.

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Speaker 1: It was already planned, already underway. Congress had already voted

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Speaker 1: showed pipes were crumbling, everything, the whole infrastructure is crumbling.

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Speaker 1: These elevators the underground parking garage showed tremendous structural failure

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Speaker 1: keep some of the steel. But remember you got an

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Speaker 1: But it was the whole plan was begun long before

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Speaker 1: Trump got there. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next. Eight

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Speaker 1: hundred three to two one zero seven ten is the number.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven to ten