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Speaker 1: And very happy Thursday to you. At twelve oh seven.

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Speaker 1: In the West, it's the Giant Phillip Show. Mister Randy

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Speaker 1: wags in Culver City. It doesn't get more San Francisco

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Speaker 1: than this. A homeowner was told by his insurance company

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Speaker 1: so he did. The City of San Francisco said, hey, wait,

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Speaker 1: those are our trees. We're gonna find you fifty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: We'll have that story coming up later in the show,

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Speaker 1: a little California Justice. I am all wrapped up in

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Speaker 1: my cord attached to my headphones.

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Speaker 2: Do you need to untangle yourself here?

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Speaker 3: I do?

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Speaker 1: I feel like David Carradine right now, hang on, you

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Speaker 1: don't want to coil yourself like a snake. This show's

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Speaker 1: not gonna last three hours if we cut off your

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Speaker 3: All right there, that's much better.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is

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Speaker 1: But we do try to play the hits when requested,

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Speaker 1: and every so often there is a news story that

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Speaker 1: sparks the interest of the audience to the point to where.

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Speaker 3: Many, many, many, many many of you.

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Speaker 1: Email us links to the same story and Randy, there's

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Speaker 1: a couple of stories involving the bums that the audience

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Speaker 2: Fox eleven has really been on it lately with this

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Speaker 2: video that you see that is emblematic of everything that's

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Speaker 2: wrong with Los Angeles that is going everywhere because all

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Speaker 2: the touting of people like Karen Bass and Nitthia Rahman

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Speaker 2: and Unses Hernandez that they want to help the homeless,

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Speaker 2: all the most obvious examples of the homeless and the

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Speaker 2: mentally ill and the drug addicted, there's no help for anybody,

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Speaker 2: including the obviously crazy guy who has taken over a

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Speaker 1: And apparently this man is now famous at least with

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Speaker 2: For more, here is Fox eleven in Los Angeles and

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Speaker 2: Christina Gonzales.

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Speaker 4: Not unusual across Los Angeles County to find homeless people

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Speaker 4: hanging out on bus benches, but we ran into a

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Speaker 4: particularly distressing situation in Hollywood today. Fox eleven's Christina Gonzalez

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Speaker 4: joining us live with the story you'll see only on

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Speaker 4: Fox eleven.

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Speaker 5: Christina and we actually have been following this situation for

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Speaker 5: over twenty four hours. The man you see behind us

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Speaker 5: his back to us. He has been living on bus

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Speaker 2: And he's not just sitting on a bus bench. There

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Speaker 2: is a pile of garbage around the bus bench, something

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Speaker 2: It is. It's very la it's very on brand.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you have to wait for the bus around

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Speaker 1: a bunch of trash, I guess that'll prime you for

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Speaker 1: riding the bus.

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Speaker 5: Here and he's now moved to the street. People here

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Speaker 5: concerned because just last Thanksgiving, on this bus bench that

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Speaker 5: you see right here, they found another un housed person

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Speaker 5: who was dead. They just don't want history to repeat itself.

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Speaker 5: Take a look at this.

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Speaker 2: That's another statistic for Karen Bass to say she reduced homelessness.

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Speaker 1: Now are they sure he was dead? Because it was Thanksgiving?

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Speaker 1: It could have been the trip to fan and the Turkey.

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Speaker 5: My name is Christina. What's your name?

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Speaker 6: I like that. I'm David.

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Speaker 5: David, But what happened that you're your names.

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Speaker 6: I'm not the situation. I'm doing right here.

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Speaker 2: David Christina's really got a knack for talking to these people.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if my boss sent me down to talk to

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Speaker 1: a homeless person living at a bus stop, I'd be

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Speaker 5: David says he's not moving from the Metro bus bench

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Speaker 7: He's a friendly sort of guy, but he's not all there.

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Speaker 1: Keith john you don't think you think so, boy, He's

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Speaker 5: Keith Johnson is part of a Citizen Homeless Advisory Group

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Speaker 5: who has been following David for a while.

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Speaker 7: He was at bus stop at Melrose and Wilton.

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Speaker 5: That bus stop now cleared, with a different homeless person

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Speaker 1: I thought it was supposed to be Project Inside Safe,

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Speaker 2: It's like they're not even doing the tents anymore. The

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Speaker 2: tents are so early twenty twenties. In the mid twenty twenties,

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Speaker 2: it's all about storm drains, living in the river and

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Speaker 2: taking over bus shelters. You know, when the City of

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Speaker 2: to put these little canopies over all the bus benches.

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Speaker 2: Who knew that those were going to turn into little

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Speaker 1: What's coming next? Mid century modern homeless encampments? Is Gary

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Speaker 5: David says he's been at this location a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 5: Have they tried to offer you a place to stay?

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Speaker 6: What I got placing all down the world?

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Speaker 5: Off there?

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Speaker 6: Take it? Look at everything which is built?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this guy's completely insane.

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Speaker 3: He's showing them around like he's a realtor what I.

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Speaker 6: Got placing all around the world?

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Speaker 2: Off there?

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Speaker 6: Take it? Look at everything which built. I'm from New Jersey,

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Speaker 6: New Jersey. The house soon nice, I'm Prendan.

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Speaker 2: He's got a house in Jersey. Then why is he

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: God, give him thirty more seconds. He'll start bragging about

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Speaker 1: the pizza.

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Speaker 6: I'm Prendan. I'm from here and there. I'm from my

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Speaker 7: I tried two to one one yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't work.

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Speaker 1: He pressed one for English. He waited at hold for

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Speaker 1: an hour, then they cut him off. Yeah yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we know the story.

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Speaker 2: Here's someone who's in an obvious mental health crisis. So

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Speaker 2: where are all the crisins? Response workers that we keep

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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't we employ like I don't know, a couple

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Speaker 1: hundred social workers with bullet holes in them to send

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Speaker 8: One one yesterday, and then they refer you to LA

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Speaker 8: Homeless Service Authority. I've also reached out to our city

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Speaker 7: They're homeless.

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Speaker 2: Hugo's not going to be any help.

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Speaker 3: Boy. This guy must be new.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, clap that up, City Councilman's office. They're homeless.

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Speaker 2: Not at this point. It was a brand new experiment

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Speaker 2: that if you vote for a DSA candidate, whether it's Hugo,

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Speaker 2: clap that up or Unisses, are we going to get it?

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Speaker 2: You should know that the one thing you're voting for

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Speaker 2: I was going to say, this guy sounds surprisedly, not defeated,

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Speaker 2: he's going to sound like everyone else in town. Both

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Speaker 2: Hugo and Unisses are up for reelection this year. Let's

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Speaker 2: see if they stay in those jobs. Because that one's

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Speaker 7: City councilman's office. They're homeless team.

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Speaker 5: We also reached out to city officials and Metro. Overnight,

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Speaker 5: someone cleaned the bus stop and David moved to the

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Speaker 2: And then he came back.

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Speaker 1: It is literally whack them all. There's whack of bum.

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Speaker 1: But you don't worry.

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Speaker 2: They spick and spend the bus bench where he was

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Speaker 2: to come back to. It's almost like the homeless who

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Speaker 2: are living on the bus benches have a turndown service.

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Speaker 1: Oh don't worry, there'll be bodily fluids back on that

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Speaker 1: bench lickety split.

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Speaker 2: You haven't even seen the second half of this story.

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Speaker 2: You are a soothsayer, sir uh oh.

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Speaker 8: Oftentimes the help comes from whoever they contract with, and

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Speaker 7: Person and go would you like services? And if they refuse,

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Speaker 7: that's it.

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Speaker 2: And how much are we paying all of these outreach

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Speaker 2: workers to say that, oh, do you need some help?

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Speaker 1: Oh you don't, okay, Well I guess it could be worse.

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Speaker 1: It could be Barbara Farrera's team down there giving him

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Speaker 5: As David told us the day before.

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Speaker 6: There's nothing going to stop me from doing it, and

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Speaker 6: they know it, and I'm gonna see it right here.

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Speaker 6: I'm a rugg bike. Were faithful and they can suck.

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Speaker 5: So he remains on the sidewalk. The delivery robots drive by,

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Speaker 5: but you can see.

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Speaker 2: There's this great image where he's sitting on the bench,

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Speaker 2: lying down on the bench in this pile of filth,

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Speaker 2: and the food delivery robot the same oh is trying

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Speaker 1: I think everyone walking down that street is trying to

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Speaker 5: So he remains on the sidewalk. The delivery robots drive by,

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Speaker 5: but you can see people stop to help, bringing food.

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Speaker 5: We've also seen David and get.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what did we say about not feeding the bears.

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Speaker 1: What we've done is in bolden these people so that

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Speaker 1: he feels like he owns that bus stop. And if

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Speaker 1: you felt like you owned something, you wouldn't let other

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Speaker 2: I know it seems compassionate to be offering blankets and

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Speaker 2: food and water to these people, but As long as

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Speaker 2: you do that, they're never going to accept the help

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Speaker 2: because you've just made them more comfortable taking over the

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Speaker 1: The only thing that we should offer him is three

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Speaker 1: hots and a cot and a clink.

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Speaker 5: We've also seen David engaged in what could be considered public.

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Speaker 2: Indecency, and I think you know what that is. And

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Speaker 2: there is video of him on the sidewalk, laying on

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Speaker 2: his back doing that, and that's not a crime. Oh my,

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Speaker 2: sure you could say, well, it's not a crime to

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Speaker 2: be homeless, it's not a crime to be loitering or

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Speaker 2: taking over a bus bench. It's not a crime to

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Speaker 2: be doing that in the middle of the street in Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what argument you make in defense

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Speaker 5: We've also seen David engaged in what could be considered

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Speaker 5: public indecency in decent exposure. Perhaps we can't show you,

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Speaker 5: but that.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't Christina has seen some things.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it. Boy, she's gonna need a stiff

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Speaker 1: one when she gets home.

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Speaker 2: Don't use that word.

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Speaker 5: That doesn't seem to surprise anyone in the area.

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Speaker 8: There's so many rough campers now here in Hollywood where

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Speaker 8: they're not in a tent. They're just out here sleeping

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Speaker 8: on a bus bench or a sidewalk.

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Speaker 7: What is our breaking point.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we don't have one.

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Speaker 1: This is la Yeah, you have to vote differently, Sarah,

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Speaker 1: that is the breaking point.

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Speaker 8: Yeah. It's not helping them, it's affecting our businesses, our community,

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Speaker 5: We did reach out to the main office sent us

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Speaker 5: a full statement, in part reading health, mental health and

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Speaker 2: This is the most outrageous part of this entire story

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Speaker 1: Unless the news stops talking about this, we're not going

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Speaker 2: This is why they all got to go. The entire

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Speaker 1: Well, and this is what they say about crime too.

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Speaker 5: Then they said they weren't going to do anything unless

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Speaker 2: Isn't it in the public's interest to see how our

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's about that at all.

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Speaker 2: Good luck. I think we're like at two weeks in

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Speaker 5: Because I didn't want a camera around. We offered to

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Speaker 2: They left. The mental health service people that we pay

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Speaker 3: A broken record.

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Speaker 1: If you do not vote differently, If in that election

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Speaker 5: Because I didn't want a camera around. We offered to

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Speaker 5: But it does speak to the reality of how difficult

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Speaker 2: Why is all of this voluntary? This entire ideology of

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Speaker 1: And part of it is that our elected officials are

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Speaker 5: Both in reality, being homeless is not a crime.

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Speaker 2: Well, how about the thing he was doing in the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't you have to register as a sex offender

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Speaker 2: It's on news video. How can you not take that

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Speaker 1: Imagine being a woman or a child living in that

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Speaker 5: It's not a crime. And unless he is a danger

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Speaker 2: That's sure seemed like a danger to me.

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Speaker 5: No kidding, he's you know, they're not going to pick

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Speaker 2: But you know what they say. They say, well, he's

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Speaker 1: How about this, We all pay for those buses. The

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Speaker 5: He's you know, they're not going to pick him up

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Speaker 2: Now, how is it that we can put Britney Spears

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Speaker 3: Because that makes TMZ.

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Speaker 5: In Hollywood? On Christina Gonzales, he's still here Fox Loven News,

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Speaker 5: Are you.

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Speaker 4: Just did a painful look?

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Speaker 9: There are?

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Of all the things that are outraged about that story,

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Speaker 2: How much are those people getting paid to do nothing?

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Speaker 2: They are telling the news to stop reporting on it.

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Speaker 2: Message received, So guess what when we return, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: Barbera writes in at Johnny Don't Like show at gmail

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Speaker 2: I just went to Carmel for my seventh birthday. There

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Speaker 2: We send them someplace else. There are cities that tolerate this,

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't want to help them either. I just

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Joseph in Los Angeles. Joseph below.

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Speaker 10: All right, one of the biggest problems with the homeless

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Speaker 10: I mean the majority of them are that there's a

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Speaker 10: But we need to quit calling them homeless people because

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Speaker 10: that's not the problem, because the drug you can't even

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Speaker 3: It's funny that you mentioned that.

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Speaker 1: When I was a child, I spent a lot of

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Speaker 1: But then we cleaned up the language and we made

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Speaker 10: Yes, and that's the problem. I mean they used to

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Speaker 10: But the solution isn't housing, because they still have If

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Speaker 10: you don't solve in any issue, if you don't solve

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Speaker 10: So that's why they have to go after the root cause,

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Speaker 10: And for the few people, the small percentage, they're just

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it, since the government doesn't want us talking

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Speaker 1: let's find out what's going on in downtown La.

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Speaker 2: Matthew Seedorf has been on a roll lately. Matthew Seedorf discovered,

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Speaker 2: and infuriating. He found the people that are living in

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Speaker 2: the sewers in Canoga Park, the people living in the

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Speaker 2: river near the La River bike path, which is one

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Speaker 2: of the worst bike paths in the entire country. And

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Speaker 2: now another tip has come to Matthew Seedorf. Hey, have

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Speaker 2: you ever seen what's going on outside the post office

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Speaker 2: in MacArthur Park?

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Speaker 3: I can only imagine For more.

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Speaker 2: Here is Fox eleven and the incredible Matthew Seedorf.

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Speaker 4: Only on Fox eleven tonight, a US post office overwhelmed

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Speaker 4: by trash and homeless encampments.

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Speaker 5: Sve is Matthew Seedorf with more.

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Speaker 11: It's unbelievable that this post office is even open. Customers

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Speaker 11: maneuvering around trash and homeless encamments, The images shocking.

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Speaker 2: How does the post office put up with that? That's

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Speaker 2: federal property.

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Speaker 1: And that's a heavily unionized workforce too. You think they'd

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Speaker 1: be able to do something about this.

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Speaker 11: This is the entrance to the post office right here.

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Speaker 11: Disturbing conditions right outside this downtown LA post office somehow

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Speaker 11: still open, surrounded by trash, mounds of garbage flooding the

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Speaker 11: parking lot, old TVs, stripped copper wire, and rats. What

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Speaker 11: it's like here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they showed live shots of the rats running

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Speaker 2: through the homeless in camb it It is it will

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Speaker 2: make your skin crawl? Where is that lunatic fake doctor

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Speaker 2: running the Department of Public Health when you need her

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Speaker 2: passing out pipes next side rats? What it's like?

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Speaker 6: He here, girls and work.

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Speaker 11: Some people living here for years, others months.

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Speaker 7: So you don't know who are you talking to. You

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Speaker 7: can't trust any day with me?

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Speaker 11: Does it's safe? Ariana Montero inviting us.

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Speaker 2: If it's not safe, then why are you there inside

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Speaker 2: the rat infested homeless incamment, outside the post office, outside

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Speaker 2: of the most gang infested park in LA Well.

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Speaker 1: How do they expect Cliff Claven to deliver the penny

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Speaker 1: save or dealing with all of that?

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Speaker 11: Ariana Montero inviting us into our encamment inside a dog shelves,

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Speaker 11: a fan, even a refrigerator.

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Speaker 3: Of course, because why not?

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Speaker 2: How do you guys get power? How is stealing power

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Speaker 2: not a crime?

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Speaker 1: It's a crime associated with the homelessness and poverty.

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Speaker 2: If I don't pay my DWP bill, they shut off

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Speaker 2: my power. We have people stealing power from the city

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Speaker 2: of Los Angeles and nothing happens to them.

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Speaker 1: Nope, Because there's one set of rules for middle class

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Speaker 1: and taxpayers, and there's another set of rules for the

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Speaker 1: protected classes, and the homeless are among them.

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Speaker 11: Obviously, this is a post office.

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Speaker 5: We're blessed that they haven't said eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Right across the street, We're blessed that they haven't said

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Speaker 2: anything about this monstrosity that we've created, because in.

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Speaker 3: La it's anything goes.

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Speaker 11: Right across the street is one of the busiest fire

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Speaker 11: stations in the city of LA They say eighty percent

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Speaker 11: of their calls are related to the homeless.

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Speaker 2: That is the number you need to remember. The fire

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Speaker 2: station outside of MacArthur Park, right next to this post office.

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Speaker 2: Their firefighters say eighty percent of all the calls they

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Speaker 2: respond to are because of the homeless.

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Speaker 1: And fifty percent of all of the fires started in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles are started by the homeless.

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Speaker 3: According to the chief.

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Speaker 2: If you're wondering why the fire department is overtaxed and

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Speaker 2: stretched so thin, it's because they're responding four out of

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Speaker 2: five calls aren't even about an actual emergency. It's either

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Speaker 2: a homeless person that oh deed, or it's a homeless

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Speaker 2: person that started a fire.

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Speaker 11: Right across the street is one of the busiest fire

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Speaker 11: stasians in the city of LA They say eighty percent

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Speaker 11: of their calls are related to the homeless. Do you

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Speaker 11: worry about your safety? It's crazy those this group from Guatemala,

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Speaker 11: they say help from the city has been hard to find.

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Speaker 3: Okay, they need help from ICE.

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Speaker 2: You know, it was funny because the other day, I

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Speaker 2: think it was Seedorf talked to someone who was from

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Speaker 2: Guatemala that said, Hey, Guatemala is much nicer than here,

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Speaker 2: I see Ada.

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Speaker 11: In a statement to Fox eleven, councilwoman unit Sees Hernandez.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, she's the one who says that the park

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Speaker 1: is fantastic and it's children playing and that sort of thing.

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Speaker 11: Yes. In a statement to Fox eleven, Countswoman unit Sees

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Speaker 11: Hernandez says they've been monitoring the area with outreach and

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Speaker 11: a cleanup planned next week.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it funny how when the news is about to

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Speaker 2: report on something, so they ask for a statement. A

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Speaker 2: place that has been ignored for months, possibly years, festering

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Speaker 2: to the point where there are rats crawling everywhere. Oh,

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Speaker 2: we're just getting around to that right now. We're cleaning

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Speaker 2: it up next week. What are you talking about? And

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Speaker 2: here's what's crazy.

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Speaker 1: What do you think the odds are if you went

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Speaker 1: through that encampment that you couldn't find active warrants or

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Speaker 1: deportation orders for just about every single person there, and a.

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Speaker 11: Statement to Fox eleven Countswoman Unit Sees Hernandez says they've

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Speaker 11: been monitoring the area with outreach and a cleanup planned

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Speaker 11: next week.

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Speaker 5: I've just did it, bus stops.

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Speaker 2: Here's what you need to do. All seven people that

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Speaker 2: are running against unses Hernandez, play that video on loop.

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Speaker 2: That's what you should be pushing out to all of

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Speaker 2: your followers. If you want more homeless encampments full of

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Speaker 2: rats outside of the post office and a fire station

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Speaker 2: where eighty percent of the fires, the things they're responding

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Speaker 2: to have to do with the homeless, then yes, give

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Speaker 2: you nisses another four years. And if we do that,

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Speaker 2: we're done.

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Speaker 1: And it's like the bus stop people have to use

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Speaker 1: that post office.

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Speaker 3: What do you do if you own a business in

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Speaker 3: that community?

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Speaker 1: What do you do if you live in that community

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Speaker 1: and you need stamps or you need to mail a

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Speaker 1: package or something.

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Speaker 11: I think, but encampments and trash remain outside the post

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Speaker 11: office where some say they want help.

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Speaker 5: I'll jump on it a second.

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Speaker 2: At what point does the Postmaster General jump in there

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Speaker 2: and start firing on all fours.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's what would happen. They would turn it into

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Speaker 1: a Trump issue and they would say, oh, look, it's

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump going to war with California, and they would

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Speaker 1: take the side of the encampment one hundred percent guaranteed.

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Speaker 11: And they haven't done that yet. The counseloman says they're

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Speaker 11: going to be out here as early as next week

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Speaker 11: clearing it all up and offering resources at Tony Westlake

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Speaker 11: Matthew Sedorf foxleven News.

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Speaker 2: So there you go. That is the latest of what

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Speaker 2: seems like daily updates from the complete failures of everyone

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Speaker 2: running Los Angeles City and Los Angeles County to do

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Speaker 2: anything about homelessness. Where a post office has been completely

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Speaker 2: taken over by the homeless.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is

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Speaker 1: jellphone number one. Eight hundred two two two five two

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Speaker 1: two two. If you'd like to email the show, you

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Speaker 1: can do so at Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail

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Speaker 1: dot com. That's Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail dot

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Speaker 1: com and randyearmonitoring the mail bag.

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Speaker 2: Al rights in from the Port of Oakland at Johnny

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Speaker 2: Don't Like Show at gmail dot com. Guys up here.

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Speaker 2: As the AC Transit solved both the camping out and

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Speaker 2: the vandalism problem by replacing bus stop shelters and benches

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Speaker 2: with single steel seats, which are few and far between.

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Speaker 2: But after all, benches and shelters are just signs of

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Speaker 2: white privilege. Now, I'm sure Shey likes that, so let's

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Speaker 2: have her say it. That's right, I like that.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to Chris and Westlake Village. Chris.

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Speaker 12: Hello, hi, guys. You know I called to say that

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Speaker 12: it's the myth. It's the myth. Uh that is a

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Speaker 12: big part of the crime.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 12: I know most people know this, but meth is cheap,

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Speaker 12: it's out there. People will not go into any treatment

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Speaker 12: because they want to stay out so they can get

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Speaker 12: their meth and their alcohol, which you can get for

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Speaker 12: six dollars that if you panhandled. But it's the myth

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Speaker 12: and meth, you know, it's it's a chemical, it's not

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Speaker 12: an organic thing, and it makes people go insane. It

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Speaker 12: destroys your mind and your body. It makes you go nuts.

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Speaker 12: So that's why you're seeing all this out there. And

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Speaker 12: as far as Nythia Rahman goes, you know, I do

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Speaker 12: believe Randy that she is what you might call a

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Speaker 12: fall guy or whatever. For Karen Vass, they believe the

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Speaker 12: same thing. She's a Democrat Socialist of America. And in

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Speaker 12: her interview I heard recently, she said, oh well, you know,

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Speaker 12: we have what seventy four hundred LAPD and she gave

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Speaker 12: that community policing spiel. So if you you know, La,

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Speaker 12: if you vote Democrat, nothing's going to change. And the

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Speaker 12: same thing for the governor, you know, I mean, I'm

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Speaker 12: going with Hilton because he's already going after the fraud.

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Speaker 12: What if Swallowell was governor, I mean, what would he do.

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Speaker 12: He'd give the schools more money, not expose any fraud,

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Speaker 12: you know. So it's like, come on, let's not be

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Speaker 12: stuck on Democrats stupid anymore. It's over and I hope

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Speaker 12: you guys have a great weekend.

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Speaker 3: All right, thank you for the call, sir, you too.

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Speaker 2: Now, John, just because he said weekend, remember today is Thursday,

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Speaker 2: not Friday.

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Speaker 3: Tomorrow is going to be the roll of the dice,

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Speaker 3: all right.

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Speaker 1: Right now, it's time for an update on California's totally

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Speaker 1: corrupt Attorney General, Bob Banta.

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Speaker 7: Bob Bonta.

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Speaker 2: This guy, Bob Bonta is now getting sued by the

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Speaker 2: California card Room Association because his regulations to ben blackjacket

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Speaker 2: the card rooms took effect yesterday, and they're saying this

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Speaker 2: is going to kill their business and also who asked

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Speaker 2: for this? For more, here's CBS forty seven in the

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Speaker 2: Central Valley.

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Speaker 13: This April's Fool's Day is no joke for California card rooms.

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Speaker 13: Today is the day the Department of Justice set up

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Speaker 13: for card rooms to drastically adjust their table games, including

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Speaker 13: getting rid of blackjack. Now the clock is ticking to

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Speaker 13: comply or hit the jackpot in court.

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Speaker 1: You knew that was coming, okay, And just to set

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Speaker 1: the table here, Bob Bonta is a wholly owned subsidiary

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Speaker 1: of the Indian Casinos. He used to be owned by

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Speaker 1: the card rooms, and then the Indian Casino paid him

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Speaker 1: more so now he's working for the Indian Casinos and

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Speaker 1: he's trying to make life miserable for the card rooms.

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Speaker 9: Bob Bonta, this is what I've been doing for the

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Speaker 9: past twenty two years now. Providing for her family is great.

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Speaker 9: I love it.

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Speaker 13: Dona Sukanti Vong says there's a simple reason why she's

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Speaker 13: been a car dealer at Club One casino and Fresno

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Speaker 13: for so long, it's the familiar fasis.

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Speaker 9: The best way to describe it, what.

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Speaker 2: Do you think the regulars that the card rub and

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Speaker 2: Fresno are like.

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Speaker 1: Oh my, they might be getting into fights and ubers too.

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Speaker 9: The best way to describe is kind of like those

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Speaker 9: are shold cheers. Everybody knows your name.

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Speaker 13: But now decie of consistency is being met with a

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Speaker 13: range of emotions and future uncertainty.

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Speaker 9: Scared, nervous, frustration, and pretty much why.

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Speaker 13: In an effort led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta

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Speaker 13: of the.

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Speaker 2: Department that's not his name, can we get a correction?

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Speaker 13: Bo Bonta, the Department of Justice wants to change the

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Speaker 13: game at California's card rooms. The new rules taking effect

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Speaker 13: today would severely affect how table games and non tribal

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00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 13: casinos are played. The most notable who.

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Speaker 2: Was being harmed by this outside of the perceived harm

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Speaker 2: to their pocketbooks of the tribal casinos that think they

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Speaker 2: have a hold on all the gambling in the state.

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Speaker 1: This is what happens when your top cop, When the

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Speaker 1: person in charge of the California Department of justice is

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Speaker 1: for sale.

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Speaker 13: The most notable alteration the essential elimination of the popular

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Speaker 13: game of blackjack.

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Speaker 14: It's such a dramatic impact on our business. I mean blackjack,

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Speaker 14: so twenty percent of what we do.

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Speaker 13: Kyle Kirkland is the owner of Club One. He's also

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Speaker 13: the president of the California Gaming Association. The nearly ninety

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Speaker 13: card rooms in the state employee around twenty thousand people.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna have to cut that in half.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, unless they just go and they

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Speaker 1: pony up more money than the Indian casinos and they

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Speaker 1: buy them off again.

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Speaker 13: The fear here and elsewhere is a massive loss of

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Speaker 13: jobs and in some cases the inability to keep the

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Speaker 13: businesses going.

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Speaker 14: The Attorney General's own internal analysis says that over fifty

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Speaker 14: percent of cardoon revenue employees are going to be affected.

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Speaker 14: We think it's going to be.

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Speaker 2: More job killer Bob bonta, everybody hop bonta.

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Speaker 14: Because if you take away such an important chunk of

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Speaker 14: our business, it's tough for us to continue to operate.

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Speaker 13: Another issue tax revenue. Kirkland says the city of Fresno

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Speaker 13: brings in around a million dollars each year through Club

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Speaker 13: One and.

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Speaker 14: There's dozens of cities that are actually reliant on carter

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Speaker 14: tax revenue.

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Speaker 13: The California Gaming Association is fighting back in court, one

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Speaker 13: of two lawsuits filed this week seeking a temporary injunction

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Speaker 13: of the new rules. For now, it's business ash and.

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Speaker 2: I would love to see if those trial those cases

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Speaker 2: go forward, what discovery looks like. Why exactly is this

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Speaker 2: Bob Banta's cause?

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Speaker 1: Da celab Well, maybe that would explain why he's already

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Speaker 1: spent five hundred thousand dollars on a white collar criminal

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Speaker 1: defense attorney.

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Speaker 13: For now, it's business as usual, but the fate of

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Speaker 13: cardroom felt is on the table.

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Speaker 9: A lot of people have young kids too now that

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Speaker 9: are working here. So you know, that's what we've been

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Speaker 9: doing to provide. And I just don't understand where this

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Speaker 9: is all coming from.

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Speaker 2: Bribery.

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Speaker 3: It's not that hard to understand.

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Speaker 13: The California Nations Indian Gaming Association supports the DOJ's rule

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Speaker 13: changes at cards.

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Speaker 2: Of course they do, because they paid for this.

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Speaker 3: The funny part is that anyone is surprised.

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Speaker 13: Card rooms we reached out to them but did not

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Speaker 13: hear back. We also contacted the eterne the General's office

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Speaker 13: and also did not.

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Speaker 2: Hear back, Oh, Bobby's too busy.

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Speaker 1: This is how it works in banana republics, and I

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Speaker 1: guess that's what we are