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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wik f Daily with

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Speaker 1: me your girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker, which, folks,

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Speaker 1: I'm actually going to just actively start turning this into

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Speaker 1: never leave because with New York on Friday having a

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Speaker 1: motherfucking earthquake out of nowhere that last week. Let me

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Speaker 1: just tell you about the weather in New York last week.

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Speaker 1: We had an earthquake on Friday. Two days before that,

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Speaker 1: there were sixty mile per hour winds that were rocking

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Speaker 1: Then somebody was posting up on social talking about Okay,

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Speaker 1: so last year this time, we couldn't go outside because

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Speaker 1: the sky turned yellow and orange right because of the wildfires.

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Speaker 1: I'm just like, yo, it is hazardous being outdoors, so

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Speaker 1: I recommend y'all just stay where you are. Nonetheless, where

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Speaker 1: are we in the world. You know, Donald Trump is

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Speaker 1: still a criminal, His followers are in a cult. I

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Speaker 1: don't really care about these court cases that I keep

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Speaker 1: telling you about, even though I have to cover them

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Speaker 1: because y'all should be up to date. But like do

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Speaker 1: I give a damn not really, but I do want

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Speaker 1: to talk about the moves that happened at the end

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Speaker 1: of last week as it pertained to Israel and Gaza.

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Speaker 1: So I reported that Biden had a phone conversation with

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Speaker 1: Netaniahu and following that conversation where he had said that

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Speaker 1: he would begin to have conditional I guess send conditional

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Speaker 1: bombs to Israel if he did not begin to open

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Speaker 1: upanitarian corridors and let AID in right, and then all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, magnificently, guess what started fucking happening. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Humanitarian corridors started opening, food and medicine started to be

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Speaker 1: able to get in. So explain to me why Biden

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Speaker 1: waited until over thirty thousand Palestinians are dead, over almost

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Speaker 1: two hundred, including the seven World Central Kitchen workers that

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Speaker 1: and nurses that have been killed. For Biden to start saying,

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Speaker 1: you know what, you don't get a fucking blank check anymore,

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Speaker 1: that you are not going to invade Rafa, You're going

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Speaker 1: to open up humanitarian quarters and as a matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: you're going to issue a cease fucking fire. Now we're

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Speaker 1: done with this shit. So I, honestly, you know, I

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Speaker 1: that horrific act of violence because it's not a mistake, right,

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Speaker 1: There's nothing that Netanyahu and the IDF are doing that

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Speaker 1: are mistakes. You don't make two hundred mistakes that kill

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Speaker 1: humanitarian aid workers. You don't make thirty five thousand or

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Speaker 1: so on mistakes that kill babies in nick U's These

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Speaker 1: are not mistakes, and to call them such is a

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Speaker 1: smack in the face to the loved ones that are

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Speaker 1: still living. You say that all where we need to

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Speaker 1: get the hostages out, there'll be no hostages left at

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Speaker 1: the rate that this motherfucker is moving. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, folks, whether or not what transpired last

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Speaker 1: week will be a tipping point. It is a question

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Speaker 1: that I continue to ask. Will it be the tipping point,

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Speaker 1: as of the time of this recording, aid is getting

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Speaker 1: war crimes. Period. Coming up next, dear friends, my conversation

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Speaker 1: with my friend Danielle Campomore. We talk about the situation

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Speaker 1: around reproductive freedom, abortion, bodily autonomy, and where we think

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Speaker 1: this issue is going to land as we get closer

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Speaker 1: and closer to November, Folks, I am always thrilled when

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Speaker 1: I have the opportunity to welcome Danielle Campomore, Journalists, activists,

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Speaker 1: repro writes Guru on all of the things. Back to

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Speaker 1: WOKF Daily. Danielle, you know, since we last spoke, my God,

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Speaker 1: the assault on reproductive freedom on people with uteruses, on

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Speaker 1: women just has been unrelenting, so much so that I'm

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Speaker 2: Right Well, I mean I'm how I'm doing and feeling.

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Speaker 2: I mean today Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden can't bring himself to say the word abortion

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Speaker 2: these lackadaisical statements is disheartening. But there's people on the

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Speaker 2: of where my focus is even today. For Marie Clare,

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Speaker 2: I was reporting on what was happening outside of Scotus

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Speaker 2: during the arguments, and you had people who were dispensing

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Speaker 2: robots that were being They had people in blue states

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Speaker 2: it doesn't matter what a Supreme Court says, it doesn't

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Speaker 2: matter what laws passed. We will be here and abortion

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Speaker 1: You know, it's there are a couple of things, because

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Speaker 1: I have been on the fence Danielle about the need

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Speaker 1: it was like for him, you know, State of the

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Speaker 2: Well, because it erases the stigma. And the reason why

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Speaker 2: those as members of the media. Unfortunately, for that stigma

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Speaker 2: who have no knowledge of pregnancy, of reproductive outcomes whatsoever,

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Speaker 2: to control the narrative of abortion care, to control the

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Speaker 2: to make them speak that truth as well. And so

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Speaker 2: I think saying the word abortion, discussing abortion accurately, honestly

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Speaker 3: It's absolutely vital.

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Speaker 2: We had an hours of the Supreme Court listening to

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Speaker 2: of total misinformation medication. Abortion is safer than viagra, penicillin, thailenal,

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Speaker 2: there's so many things that has brought us to this point,

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Speaker 2: in word is important. One way is that they could

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Speaker 2: the State of the Union. Is to center the people

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Speaker 2: who have abortions, that's black and brown women. We should

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Speaker 2: be putting them on television. We should be handing them

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Speaker 2: following their leaders to what we can do to save

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Speaker 2: not only abortion access in this country, but democracy in

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Speaker 2: and that is something that Biden can do. He talks

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Speaker 2: and I agree. But in order to save democracy, that's

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Speaker 2: the outcomes of their pregnancies. Those themes are inexplicably linked.

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Speaker 2: You cannot separate one from the other, and yet this

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Speaker 2: to those who've done this work, the black and brown,

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Speaker 2: more forceful pushback against these erroneous outrageous attacks on abortion care.

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Speaker 1: When you talk about handing over the mic and listening

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Speaker 1: Democratic Party, I think the establishment still doesn't listen, right,

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Speaker 1: And so I wonder, Danielle, like we are just seven

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Speaker 1: What we've seen is that every time that abortion has

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Speaker 1: been on the ballot in states, it has won. Right

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Speaker 1: that the people have come out this election, there is

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Speaker 1: just I mean, I can't I can't list all of

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Speaker 1: Is it enough in your mind? Do you think to

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Speaker 2: I guess it kind of depends on which day you

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Speaker 2: asked me that question. That's fair find the late. I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to find the light here too.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: There's some days where I'm like, I don't know. There's

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Speaker 2: other days where I'm like, you know what, yes, I

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Speaker 2: think so. Unfortunately, we have seen in this country white

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Speaker 2: to abortion care, and they're realizing that this does impact

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Speaker 2: and that it isn't just about ending an unwanted pregnancy.

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Speaker 2: Like you said, there's so much writing on this upcoming

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Speaker 1: I feel like there's no end to what they're going after.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think you know to your point, that will

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Speaker 2: And you know, we've we've been talking about this, and

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Speaker 1: Oh, Danielle, my friend, we will leave it here today

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you, my friend. Yep, let's uh, we'll walk

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today, Dear friends on woke

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Speaker 1: A app as always power to the people and to

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