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Speaker 1: And very happy Thursday to you at twelve oh six

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Speaker 1: in the West Eats the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy

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Speaker 2: Today is June twenty fifth, at five o'clock. It is

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Speaker 2: the official cutoff. No more deals can be made in Sacramento.

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Speaker 2: The things that have qualified for the ballot will be

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Speaker 2: on the November ballot. And all signs right now are

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Speaker 2: pointing to the fact that even though Karen Bass made

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Speaker 2: all those cryptic noises during that sit down with Conan Nolan,

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Speaker 2: the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association does not look like they

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Speaker 2: are budging, and they are making sure that the Save

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Speaker 2: Prop thirteen Actor, I think it's going to be called

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Speaker 2: the Local Taxpayer Protection Act, that is going on the

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Speaker 2: November ballot.

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Speaker 1: Now, what's interesting is that yesterday we spoke with Susan

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Speaker 1: Shelley and I asked your point blank if Republicans in

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Speaker 1: the legislature were putting pressure on her to pull her

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Speaker 1: initiative from the ballot. She said no, She said, what's

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Speaker 1: going on is that Karen Bass and company are going

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Speaker 1: after their donors. They're putting pressure on the donors to

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Speaker 1: pull away from the initiative and to put pressure on

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Speaker 1: John Coopol and HJTA to remove their initiative from the

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Speaker 1: November ballot. Since then, we have learned that that is

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Speaker 1: in fact true, and now many of the developers that

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Speaker 1: help fund the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and put up

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Speaker 1: the money to collect the signatures have now vowed to

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Speaker 1: it's made the November ballot.

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Speaker 2: That is crazy, especially because the developers stand to benefit

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Speaker 2: if the Howard Jarvis Bill passes, because that would undo

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Speaker 2: Measure ULA and the City of Los Angeles, the measure

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Speaker 2: that has made it impossible to build apartment buildings in

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Speaker 2: the City of Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Now we know that Karen Bass has a lot of

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Speaker 1: skin in the game because if you look at her budget,

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Speaker 1: she is counting on all of that money for her

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Speaker 1: to meet her needs, and if the Jarvis Bill passes,

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Speaker 2: What's wild is this was discussed a lot in city

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Speaker 2: a weird thing. If you listen to these insane city

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Speaker 2: council meetings, you'll hear all the gadflies, You'll hear our

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Speaker 2: You'll hear the incredibly vile, racist things that we cannot

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Speaker 2: broadcast on this radio station. But for a very long time,

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Speaker 2: you would hear all of these organized people showing up,

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Speaker 2: specifically eviction defense attorneys from organizations like bet Sedek, who

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Speaker 2: what this is is one of the things that measure ULA,

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Speaker 2: the Real Estate Transfer Tax pays for in the city

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Speaker 2: to sue the city of Los Angeles to make sure

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Speaker 2: nobody gets evicted. And they needed a contract renewal. They

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Speaker 2: got a huge contract fornewal, knowing that if this thing

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Speaker 2: passes the Howard Jarvis Bill and the ULA funding goes

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Speaker 2: the way, the city of la is going to be

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Speaker 2: they do not have to hire the eviction defense attorneys

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Speaker 1: Of this leads to the question, if Karen Bass is

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Speaker 1: putting pressure on these developers to switch sides, what kind

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Speaker 1: of pressure is she putting on them? And I bet

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Speaker 1: you anything. She's telling them that if they don't get

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Speaker 1: to approve their projects. Or who knows, maybe she threatened

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Speaker 2: Well, what's interesting is whatever pressure is being applied, it

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Speaker 2: it's not a done deal yet. We've got about four

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Speaker 2: hours and forty eight minutes, but it sure looks like

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Speaker 2: the Local Taxpayer Protection Act will be something you can

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Speaker 2: vote on in November, along with all two thousand other

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Speaker 1: Well, for her to be burning the Midnight Oil now

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Speaker 1: Because the debate won't be a traditional Republican versus Democrat,

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Speaker 1: Jarvis and company are going to paint this fight as

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Speaker 2: And it's going to create some very interesting coalitions if

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Speaker 2: If this passes, it will make building housing more affordable

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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter how dumpy in the city of Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: So you may get all kinds of different people supporting

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Speaker 1: Now, speaking of Karen Bass disasters, we have an update

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Speaker 2: The warehouse fire in Boil Heights has finally been knocked down.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations everybody. It took a week, and it took getting

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Speaker 2: those water cannons from Texas shipped over here, but they

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Speaker 2: finally knocked this thing down. They're still going to be

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Speaker 2: monitoring it for hotspots. But to find out more about

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Speaker 2: getting put out, let's go to Fox eleven and a

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Speaker 2: report from our buddy, the One, the Only, the Myth,

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Speaker 2: the legend. It's time for mister ed Lascos and Christine.

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Speaker 3: Finally, the announcement coming from Incident Commanded announced.

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Speaker 2: It Alasko's in a fire jacket.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you don't want him to be lit on

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Speaker 1: fire like what happened to Harvey Levin.

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Speaker 3: We've been waiting seven long days and nights to hear

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Speaker 3: this fire is now knocked down.

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Speaker 4: What does that mean?

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Speaker 3: It means no more active flame inside this sprawling warehouse,

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Speaker 2: Mike, you take it. It means that Ed doesn't have to

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Speaker 4: It's into the story.

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Speaker 3: Some of the private contractors moving in now. Actually they're

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Speaker 3: there to fight the oil well fires, the oil refinery fires.

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Speaker 3: And looking over to the left, more of the heavy

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Speaker 4: A fire here that sparked to life.

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Speaker 3: A week ago and now a week later is finally

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Speaker 2: It looks like a skeleton of a building. It look

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Speaker 2: you know what it looks like. It looks like when

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Speaker 2: you do the Universal Studio tour and you go through

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Speaker 2: the burned out fuselage of the War of the World's plane.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just covered in black smoke, covered in charcoal.

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Speaker 1: Looks like Lucille Ball's lungs.

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Speaker 4: Watch a knockdown.

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Speaker 3: Exactly one week after the warehouse firefight began at.

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Speaker 5: Five point fifty eight PM tonight, the incident commander called

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Speaker 5: a knockdown.

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Speaker 4: Active flames though pretty much shut down, not gurning.

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Speaker 2: That's correct.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no active flames that we see right now,

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Speaker 5: and the water will continue to still be applied.

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Speaker 2: So they're not just going to assume that it's out

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Speaker 2: and leave like they did for the Lockman fire.

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Speaker 1: Well, maybe they learned something finally.

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Speaker 2: And of course the fire fighters know what to do.

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Speaker 2: It's management that made that decision.

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Speaker 3: That means aerial water drops and these non stop water

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Speaker 3: cannons they are blasting out thousands of gallons of water

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Speaker 2: Incident command, do we get to keep those or do

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Speaker 2: we have to send those back to Texas?

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Speaker 1: Well, maybe we have to take them apart and then

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Speaker 3: Now says there are still hotspots deep inside the Lineage

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Speaker 4: And check this drone.

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Speaker 2: What do you think that warehouse smells like right now?

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Speaker 1: Like a bunch of rotting fudgeticles.

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Speaker 6: You can smell right here.

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Speaker 3: It's giving us a close up look inside the warehouse

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Speaker 3: itself and outside a knockdown brings relief.

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Speaker 4: Finally, down wind from the fire.

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Speaker 5: The breeze, it's you know, pushing it away and dissipating it.

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Speaker 5: So we've seen a tremendous improvement today from yesterday. Or

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Speaker 2: The air quality is going to improve so much. We're

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Speaker 2: actually going to be able to have no problem doing

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Speaker 2: have a problem. It's just going to do to us

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Speaker 2: being fat.

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Speaker 3: This giant fan blowing a few blocks away at this

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Speaker 4: It's a little bit better today, he says.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if you want croissants with smoke tane, No,

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Speaker 3: That is the week long firefight now moves on to

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Speaker 3: its next phase and overhaul, slowly dealing with all the debris,

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Speaker 3: the thousands and thousands of pounds of rotting food inside

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Speaker 3: this once cold storage warehouse.

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Speaker 2: And all the toxic chemicals in debris and foam and

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Speaker 2: insulation that is currently on its way to the La River.

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Speaker 1: Have fun surfing kids, and.

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Speaker 5: Be starting to get the private contractors up to speed.

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Speaker 5: They're already on site. They're already getting ramped up to

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Speaker 5: take over the debris removal, the removal of all this

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Speaker 5: food waste, making sure there's no heat in.

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Speaker 4: It, and now you're looking live.

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Speaker 1: Those frozen hot pockets are really going to be hot today.

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Speaker 4: It's any heat in it. That's why they're still using

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Speaker 4: these water cannons blast.

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Speaker 2: You know what, As somebody that has eaten quite a

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Speaker 2: few hot pockets in my life, I guarantee even after

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Speaker 2: I microwaved those things. And you still can't bite into

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Speaker 2: that meat ball. Boy, that takes me back.

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Speaker 3: Staying all of that water deep inside some of those

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Speaker 3: hot spots. The overhaul, the next phase begins tomorrow. They

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Speaker 3: have the contractors moving in. They'll slowly start to remove

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Speaker 3: a lot of the rotting food inside this warehouse now

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Speaker 3: turned fire debris.

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Speaker 4: For now we're live, You're boil Heights. Back to the

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Speaker 2: What do you think the owner of this building does?

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Speaker 2: Do you think they they I mean, obviously they have

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Speaker 2: they find some developer that wants to build affordable housing

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Speaker 2: on it.

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Speaker 7: Jury deliberations begin in the Palisades fire trial. Thirty year

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Speaker 2: No one's going to get that name right.

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Speaker 7: He was accused of starting a fire a different one

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Speaker 6: Che de chricity prosecutors, we know how, presented over thirty

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Speaker 2: Thirty witnesses except nobody saw him light a flame. So

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Speaker 1: Listen. I think all you need to convict this guy

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Speaker 6: The man behind that deadly Palatinates fire. But today the

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Speaker 6: Eight months later.

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Speaker 6: Jury now deciding whether the thirty year old arson suspect

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Speaker 2: He was lonely and he hated rich people.

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Speaker 1: Well, he hated rich people, he hated Trump. He went

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Speaker 2: That's what we call the insult community, in voluntary celibates,

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Speaker 6: Prosecutors say the Lochman fires molded underground before exploding into

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Speaker 9: The magnitude of devastation was huge. I was up here

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Speaker 6: Prosecutors have presented digital evidence, including cell phone data plays

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Speaker 2: Now here's what's interesting. They had someone from the ATF

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Speaker 1: Okay, you know how I can tell this fire wasn't

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Speaker 2: Why is that?

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Speaker 2: Then it was New Year's Eve, Johnny, We don't have

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Speaker 8: The jury will return tomorrow at eight am to continue

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Speaker 2: You know, this lawyer is so tan. I think it's

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Speaker 1: It's possible another day to deliberate.

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Speaker 1: No no, and if the jury goes wait a minute,

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Speaker 6: No render. Netch could face up to forty five years

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Speaker 2: So there you go. They're deliberating as we speak right now.

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Speaker 1: With all the money that the City of La wastes,

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Speaker 2: When the sex robots come online, it's going to solve

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Speaker 1: Oh, this guy could blow off some steam before he

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Speaker 2: putting forth an entire report on everything we did right

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Speaker 2: and everything we did wrong in COVID. It's coming any

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Speaker 2: day now. And then the report came out and no

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Speaker 2: one got to read it.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And that was back in the day when

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Speaker 1: following the science meant it was okay. To show up

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Speaker 1: with an angry mob. If you want to burn down

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Speaker 1: a way, mow in some black and whites because you're

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Speaker 1: upset over George Floyd. But if you go windsurfing in

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Speaker 1: the ocean by yourself, you're gonna kill everyone's great all

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Speaker 1: with COVID.

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Speaker 2: You remember, gosh, early on, how many people were like

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Speaker 2: flocking to the golf course and then they were thinking

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Speaker 2: about closing the golf courses.

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Speaker 1: They did. They not only shut down the golf courses,

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Speaker 1: they shut down the basketball courts, They shut down the

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Speaker 1: tennis and pickleball courts. They shut down the gyms. For

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Speaker 1: heaven's sake, they shut down the beaches.

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Speaker 2: In Oakland, they shut down the basketball courts, but for

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Speaker 2: a different reason. Oh my god, they melted the basketball court.

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Speaker 1: Oh Oakland, never change.

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Speaker 2: It's the four year anniversary of that clip.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: For more on Steve Hilton's gubernatorial campaign as we start

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Speaker 2: the race towards November, and what he said about COVID,

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Speaker 2: here is a report from ABC seven Eyewitness News in

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles.

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Speaker 10: Okretavier Basera and Republican Steve Hilton are each hoping to

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Speaker 10: be the next governor of California.

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Speaker 6: Tonight, Hilton is also vowing to investigate what he calls

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Speaker 6: wrongdoing during Governor Gavin Newsom's administration.

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Speaker 2: You know, if Steve Hilton can promise a day one

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Speaker 2: tribunal of Barbara Verrar, it's gonna get a lot of support.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, if he puts that witch in a gulag,

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Speaker 1: I will love him forever and ever and ever.

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Speaker 11: Political reporter Josh Haskell has the interview as former Fox

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Speaker 11: News host Steve Hilton launches his runoff election campaign for

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Speaker 11: governor against Democrat Javi or Besserra. Hilton isn't running away

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Speaker 11: from President Trump's endorsement. Instead, he says it's the only

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Speaker 11: thing Democrats can attack him on.

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Speaker 12: For the President endorses whoever he wants to endorse or

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Speaker 12: not endorse. It doesn't change the fact.

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Speaker 2: That privately it was probably like, can't you just leave

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Speaker 2: us alone?

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Speaker 1: Well, he needed it in the primary, but now it's

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Speaker 1: not helpful in the general.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he needed it in the primary.

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Speaker 2: Bianco got what ten percent something like that. People saw

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Speaker 2: his debate performances, they were like, n he seems a

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Speaker 2: little nuts.

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Speaker 12: What I'm fighting for is lower gas, low attacks, dealing

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Speaker 12: with the cost of living, practical things for Californias. Most

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Speaker 12: of those things are affected by the policy decisions we

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Speaker 12: make here in California. And I think that's why you've

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Speaker 12: got a majority of Californias now saying we need to

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Speaker 12: change direction. So you've got the twenty nine percent approval

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Speaker 12: of President Trump, but in that poll, but you've got

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Speaker 12: fifty seven percent who say that California is on the

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Speaker 12: wrong track and needs change. And that's the basis of

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Speaker 12: what I think will be a victory for change in November.

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Speaker 12: That's going to surprise a lot of people.

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Speaker 13: So if President Trump calls you tomorrow and says, hey, Steve,

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Speaker 13: I'm coming out to California.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to campaign for you.

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Speaker 11: What would you say to that.

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Speaker 12: Well, I think what I focused on.

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Speaker 2: Is please don't.

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Speaker 1: Just fly Americans so you get stuck in Dallas.

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Speaker 12: That is the policy cooperation.

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Speaker 10: You know.

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Speaker 12: For example, one of the ways we get to three

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Speaker 12: dollar gas, my plan is to make sure that instead

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Speaker 12: of importing oil from halfway around the world on giants, supertankers,

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Speaker 12: that's actually bad for the environment, Let's use California oil.

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Speaker 11: Hilton was born in the UK, where he served as

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Speaker 11: director of strategy for former Prime Minister David Cameron, and

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Speaker 11: then moved to California in twenty twelve, becoming a US

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Speaker 11: citizen in twenty twenty one. A small business owner, Hilton

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Speaker 11: lives in northern California with his wife, a tech industry executive,

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Speaker 11: and their two sons. On the campaign trail, hilton Is

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Speaker 11: discussed launching California's own version of Doge and investigating fraud,

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Speaker 11: but when asked about this during hour, Okay.

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Speaker 1: If we actually did that, we'd throw half the state

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Speaker 1: in prison because every single one of these homeless services organizations,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's graft going on there, all of these

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Speaker 1: groups that deal with Look at the fire, Look at

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Speaker 1: fire aid. That money's not going to the fire victims.

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Speaker 1: Where the hell is that going? And now did you

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Speaker 1: see this? The people who owned the building, they gave

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Speaker 1: money to the California Foundation instead of directly to the victims.

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Speaker 1: Did you see that?

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Speaker 2: Sounds like the same a griff that we have going

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Speaker 2: all the time. We never want to just directly support

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Speaker 2: the victims. It always has to be laundered through some

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Speaker 2: organization that skims off the top.

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Speaker 1: Why is it that, Well, we know why we do that?

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Speaker 1: So that they can take a cut. But if you're

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Speaker 1: trying to make someone who is a victim whole, just

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Speaker 1: give them the money for Heaven's sake.

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Speaker 11: Interview, Hilton discussed investigating something else.

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Speaker 13: We had the.

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Speaker 12: Longest and most cruel lockdowns and school closures in the country,

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Speaker 12: and some of that, I suspect was the result of

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Speaker 12: a corrupt relationship between the politicians who made the decisions,

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Speaker 12: and the and the and the unions who fund them.

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Speaker 2: You mean like UTLA and I want you to be

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Speaker 2: all the way, Johnny. Do you remember when LAUSD was

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Speaker 2: locked down longer than anywhere else. Do you remember Cecily

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Speaker 2: Meyerk putting out a list of demands, and one of

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Speaker 2: those demands, and this is actually from that video, we

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Speaker 2: demand higher pay and one of the other demands again

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Speaker 2: to make it so the teachers felt safe to come

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Speaker 2: back in the classroom from COVID. It didn't have anything

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Speaker 2: to do with testing, It didn't have anything to do

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Speaker 2: with vaccines, didn't have anything to do with plaquinel, which

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Speaker 2: you don't think was a thing. Then it was we

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Speaker 2: need you to defund the LAUSD police departments.

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Speaker 1: Didn't They also demand universal healthcare?

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Speaker 2: That was what they demanded in the last negotiation.

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Speaker 12: And that's something I think we got to look at.

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Speaker 12: We can't just forget all these things. Real pain was caused.

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Speaker 12: Kids lost years of learning if elected government.

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Speaker 1: Well, not only that, instead of sending them to school

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Speaker 1: where they could I don't know, blow off some steam

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Speaker 1: doing athletics and theater and all those after school projects

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Speaker 1: and programs that they like so much, we sat them

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Speaker 1: inside their bed rooms and we had him play Grand

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Speaker 1: Theft auto for a year and a half. That's like

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Speaker 1: a crash course on producing a state full of active shooters.

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Speaker 13: You planned to investigate the lockdowns from six years ago

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Speaker 13: from COVID, Yeah.

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Speaker 12: Very much, though we need and to make sure that

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Speaker 12: nothing like that ever happens again. Look at that we're

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Speaker 12: still living with the costs. I mean you look at

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Speaker 12: talk about the budget, the bloat in the budget. A

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Speaker 12: lot of that started during the pandemic and it's still there.

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Speaker 2: Is this the fact you had so many agencies that

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Speaker 2: got so many bailouts from the state and the federal government,

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Speaker 2: specifically our transit agencies La Metro in the south, bart

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Speaker 2: in the north. They bloated their budgets to a point

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Speaker 2: where they thought Oh, the money's just going to keep

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Speaker 2: it coming, and now it's not. And that's why you

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Speaker 2: have to vote for a trans attax in the Bay

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Speaker 2: Area in November.

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Speaker 1: Well, and don't forget. And we never had a full

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Speaker 1: accounting on this one. Remember when EDD gave away thirty

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Speaker 1: billion dollars to criminals all around the country, when Californians

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Speaker 1: who were put out of work because of our stupid

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Speaker 1: luck down couldn't get their money. But every criminal in

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Speaker 1: Louisiana could go to Flemings on the House.

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Speaker 2: And Johnny, there's people that got those EDD cards that

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Speaker 2: they didn't deserve. The ones that took money from the

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Speaker 2: state and spent it at the steakhouses in Vegas. Did

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Speaker 2: they tip?

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Speaker 1: No, they did not.

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Speaker 2: Cheapskates.

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Speaker 13: Best use of government funds to investigate the lockdowns from

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Speaker 13: six years ago.

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Speaker 12: It's going to be done in six months, so I

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Speaker 12: got out.

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Speaker 2: I don't even think you need that long.

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Speaker 1: No, I could do it in a commercial break it.

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Speaker 12: There'd be a lot of money and it's not going

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Speaker 12: to take a lot of time because I think we'll

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Speaker 12: get the answer very quickly if elected.

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Speaker 11: Hilton has pledged to shrink the size of state government

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Speaker 11: and Under his plan, Californians would pay no state income

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Speaker 11: tax on their first one hundred and fifty thousand dollars

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Speaker 11: of income.

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Speaker 2: I love how his plan was originally one hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars of income, but inflation has gotten so bad we

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Speaker 2: have to up into one fifty.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, that is an awful idea. Everyone

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Speaker 1: should have to pay taxes who lives here. I don't

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Speaker 1: care what it is you gotta pay, because the moment

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Speaker 1: you start giving people a free pass, guess what they're

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Speaker 1: going to do. They're going to vote to raise taxes

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Speaker 1: on everyone else, over and over and over again.

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Speaker 11: Income above one hundred and fifty thousand would be taxed

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Speaker 11: at an eight percent rate.

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Speaker 13: Seventy four percent of registered voters in California don't approve

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Speaker 13: of the work that Ice is doing.

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Speaker 11: Would you work with Ice?

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Speaker 1: What it's the law?

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Speaker 2: I mean, you've got to allow.

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Speaker 11: It's unclear how Hilton would get his proposals through the

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Speaker 11: Democratic supermajority in Sacramento. California hasn't elected a Republican governor

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Speaker 11: in more than fifteen years.

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Speaker 13: The state of California and Governor newsm have taken a

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Speaker 13: number of steps to protect reproductive freedom, patient privacy. They've

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Speaker 13: allowed for including more access to abortion medications. What would

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Speaker 13: your approach be to that?

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Speaker 12: Well, I think this is a really complicated issue. First

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Speaker 12: of all, the governor has no on the basic question

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Speaker 12: of these rights, the right to an abortion. That is

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Speaker 12: something that's now enshrined in California's constitution as of twenty

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Speaker 12: twenty two. That's not going to change.

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Speaker 11: We're working on setting up an interview with Hilton's opponent,

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Speaker 11: Javey or Bisera for some time next month.

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Speaker 2: Oh, good luck with that.

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Speaker 1: He's going to be in Joe Biden's basement.

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Speaker 2: Do you really expect Javi or Bessera to do any

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Speaker 2: kind of campaigning this summer?

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Speaker 1: No, No, imagine running that campaign. You don't want to

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Speaker 1: put him out on television. You don't want to put

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Speaker 1: him on a debate stage. I don't even think you

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Speaker 1: want to put him out there in front of friendly audiences.

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Speaker 1: Because think about this, he was able to skate through

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Speaker 1: that primary without having much trouble from the DSA, in

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Speaker 1: part because Eric Swalwell imploded and all of the organizing

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Speaker 1: that it would take to get behind one candidate, it

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Speaker 1: was kind of muddied if you put him out there

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Speaker 1: in front of friendly crowds, he's going to be heckled

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Speaker 1: over Palestine and Gaza and Israel and all of that

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Speaker 1: mass that he wants no part of. And they're going

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Speaker 1: to try to get him to subscribe to so many

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Speaker 1: of their beliefs that people on the ballot earlier this

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Speaker 1: week took and won their elections, and now that's becoming

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Speaker 1: the dominant philosophy in the Democratic Party. If you're Javier Bessera,

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Speaker 1: you just want to run as a generic Democrat. You

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Speaker 1: don't want to run as a socialist. You don't want

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Speaker 1: to run as someone who's going to have the government

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Speaker 1: own the means of production. You just want to be

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Speaker 1: an afterthought. You want people to look and see the

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Speaker 1: d and vote for the candidate without thinking too much

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Speaker 1: about it.

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Speaker 2: Did you see that this week Besarah had lunch with Gavin.

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Speaker 2: How awkward do you think that was? Who do you

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Speaker 2: think picked up the tab? Because both of those guys

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Speaker 2: have deep pockets and short arms. It's the John Phillips Show.

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Speaker 2: It's the John Phillip Show. Eight hundred two two two

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Speaker 2: five two two two is the telephone number one eight

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Speaker 2: hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd

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Speaker 2: like to email the show, you can do so at

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Speaker 2: Johnny don't like Show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny

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Speaker 2: don't like show at gmail dot com. The Fixed California

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Speaker 2: Hour coming up after the news at won. Gavin has

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Speaker 2: told state.

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Speaker 1: Workers it's time to return to the office, and state

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Speaker 1: workers are stomping their feet telling them to go to hell.

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Speaker 1: Those details coming up in moments. Let's go to Kirk

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Speaker 1: in Bointa Parte.

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Speaker 10: Kirk, Hello, Yeah, it just occurred to me all the

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Speaker 10: fuss they're putting about getting that Capaldi proposition off the

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Speaker 10: ballot because it will rate in taxes. When was the

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Speaker 10: last time Karen Bass or any of them said, Oh,

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Speaker 10: that tax that's going to raise taxes, let's pull that

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Speaker 10: off the ballot. We're out there, you know.

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Speaker 1: I can't think of the last time Karen Bass has

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Speaker 1: publicly come out against a tax increase. Now, maybe she's

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Speaker 1: against the billionaire confiscation tax. I know that many Democrats

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Speaker 1: in California are against that because they know that will

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Speaker 1: blow the budget. But Karen Bass is a tax and

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Speaker 1: spend liberal, has been her entire career, so doing everything

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Speaker 1: she can to kill an initiative that would give California

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Speaker 1: taxpayers and homeowners a break is within her character.

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Speaker 10: Well, that's what I mean, is just to kind of

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Speaker 10: hammer that, to rein remind people that all they want

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Speaker 10: to do is take your money. They don't have any control,

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Speaker 10: any sense of controlling what they spend or just increase

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Speaker 10: for the sake of increase.

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Speaker 1: You know, listen to this. They still want homeowners to

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Speaker 1: pay property taxes on the homes that can and bass

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Speaker 1: burned down.

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Speaker 10: Oh I know.

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Speaker 2: Instead of canceling those fees, they just deferred them. They

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Speaker 2: deferred them a year. People steer aren't back home, so like, okay,

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Speaker 2: how about we defer it five years. So in twenty thirty,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna see people who have a massive balloon payment

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Speaker 2: of five years of property taxes.

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Speaker 10: Do yeah, and sometimes that can almost be more than

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Speaker 10: that property is worth.

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Speaker 1: How in the world can you ask someone to pay

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Speaker 1: taxes on something that doesn't exist because those loans all

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Speaker 1: burned down.

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Speaker 2: It's almost like, through either incompetence or just the baracracy itself,

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Speaker 2: we are incentivizing every single one of those victims to sell.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely absolutely, sir, I have a question for you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what brand do you smoke?

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Speaker 10: Oh, actually it's it's your cigars.

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Speaker 2: Love it, enjoy yourself, my friend.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the good sir,