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Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Coblt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: Welcome again as we continue covering the plane crash in Washington,

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Speaker 2: d C yesterday. You can follow us at John Cobelt

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Speaker 2: Radio on all social media. And next person we want

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Speaker 2: to talk to is Emma James. She's a writer for

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Speaker 2: the Daily Mail and she landed at Reagan Airport on

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Speaker 2: a flight from Kansas City just minutes before the crash happened,

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Speaker 2: and she saw the flashing red lights and ambulances just

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Speaker 2: I guess as soon as she got into the terminal.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk to Emma James for her story. Emma, thanks

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Speaker 2: for coming on.

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Speaker 3: Hi John, Thanks thanks for having me so.

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Speaker 1: Tell us what happened last night.

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Speaker 2: You landed, The winds were strong, the landing was a

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Speaker 2: little bumpy.

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Speaker 1: Talk about what you went through.

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Speaker 3: My colleague and I have obviously traveled to DCA fairly

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Speaker 3: often for work and it can be fairly bumpy at

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Speaker 3: the best of times. But the captain did sort of

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Speaker 3: make us aware that it was going to be windier

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Speaker 3: than usual and there may be some issues and turbulance

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Speaker 3: on landing. Our flight was fine. There was no real issues.

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Speaker 3: It was slightly bumpy, but basically I think ten minutes

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Speaker 3: as soon as we got into the terminal, there was

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Speaker 3: just a sudden sort of flurry of activity, a lot

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Speaker 3: of ambulances, a lot of fire, and least just on

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Speaker 3: the tarmac heading towards the river. And I think initially

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Speaker 3: we both thought there may have been sort of a

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Speaker 3: then another sort of flurry came through and it became

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Speaker 1: And how did it develop? Like how much could you

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Speaker 3: So we couldn't see. It was dark by the time

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Speaker 3: this is all happening, so it's mostly just the lights

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Speaker 3: of the emergency services and these helicopters looking over the river.

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Speaker 3: be honest, I think no one was quite aware of

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Speaker 1: When did it think in that the worst had happened.

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Speaker 3: I think it sunk in after we got an alert

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Speaker 3: And obviously it sunk in a lot further as soon

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Speaker 3: more people, a lot more damaging than we initially thought.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and what did you do?

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Speaker 2: Then you got a news story that literally fell from

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean my colleague and I had to stay

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Speaker 3: We obviously spoke to other passengers, but everybody else was

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Speaker 3: You know, reporting on this kind of thing gives you

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Speaker 3: a little bit of a harder skin, but not when it,

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Speaker 1: Did you land on the same runway or another part

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Speaker 3: I believe we landed on the other side of the airports.

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Speaker 3: We didn't land on that exact runway.

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Speaker 2: Right, because I was wondering how close it would have

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Speaker 4: You know, I was.

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Speaker 2: Really amazing this plane that crashed. All it had to

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Speaker 3: Just I feel so sorry for those people that were

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's short runway, the one that they landed on.

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Speaker 2: It's about seven thousand feet and normally runways are thirteen

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Speaker 2: at the airport's many decades old, and it wasn't designed

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Speaker 2: this traffic that it does get now because they have

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I believe that recently they added I think

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Speaker 3: it was five more slots. I'm not entirely clear on

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Speaker 3: saying that that was, you know, something that caused this,

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Speaker 3: but for sure it's a much busier airport than I

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Speaker 1: When you walk up this morning, emotionally, how did you feel?

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Speaker 2: People have said they felt relieved, they felt guilty.

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Speaker 3: So I definitely think I felt relieved. But there's also

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Speaker 3: much as you're happy to still be here and be

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Speaker 3: thought process. There's still the sixty seven other people that

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Speaker 3: did lose their lives, and they have families and loved

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Speaker 3: ones that they're never going to see again. That they

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Speaker 3: were texting as they thought they were touching down to

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Speaker 3: I wasn't, but I, you know, feel very guilty for

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Speaker 2: But I would have felt exactly the same way. Emma

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Speaker 2: James us, senior reporter for the Dailymail dot Com. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for coming on with us.

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Speaker 3: Thanks John, Have a good day.

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Speaker 2: All right, Emma James. There, now we come back. Trump

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Speaker 2: went off at his press conference this morning. This is

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Speaker 2: eight thirty our time. And because he was he was willing,

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Speaker 2: willing to blame, willing to say that the crash was

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Speaker 2: somebody's fault, and eventually he blamed a DEI, which had

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Speaker 2: the reporters go into a tizzy.

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Speaker 1: We've got several Trump clips.

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Speaker 2: But as usual, while the reporters were chasing their own

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Speaker 2: tails on, it turns out that, Yeah, the FAA decided

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Speaker 2: in favor. And I'm not making this up, and I

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Speaker 2: want to tease this. They actually had in writing that

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Speaker 2: they were going to favor people who were physically paralyzed,

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Speaker 2: who had severe into severe intellectual.

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Speaker 1: Problems and.

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Speaker 2: Serious emotional problems, serious psychiatric problems.

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Speaker 1: You believe this, No intellectual.

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Speaker 2: Problems, psychiatric problems, and paralysis issues. That they were going

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Speaker 1: And this is what he was talking about. We'll tell

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Speaker 1: you about it next. You're shaking your head. Is all

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Speaker 1: you can do is grunt. I mean, there's well to

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Speaker 2: It's it's stunning, but it's from an actual lawsuit brought

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Speaker 2: by the people who've been rejected from jobs at the FAA,

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Speaker 3: Get a job with the FAA, right, I can work for.

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Speaker 1: The TSA too.

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Speaker 2: You could be well, anybody can work for the TSA,

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Speaker 2: but I could see you waving down planes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, you're.

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Speaker 5: Listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six forty.

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Speaker 2: Trump held a press conference and immediately said this crash

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Speaker 2: was could have been preventable. So did the Secretary of

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Speaker 2: I told you about the fires, pointing out how Karen

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Speaker 2: And then after that the emotion drains. People's attention spans drift,

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Speaker 2: having the highest standards for air traffic controllers.

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Speaker 6: We must have only the highest standards for those who

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Speaker 6: work in our aviation system. I changed the Obama standards

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Speaker 4: That was not so prior to getting there.

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Speaker 6: When I arrived in twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 4: I made that change very early on because.

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Speaker 6: I always felt this was a job that and other jobs,

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Speaker 4: Because this was the lowest level.

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Speaker 6: Their policy was horrible and their politics was even worse.

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Speaker 2: You had hundreds, maybe over one thousand air traffic controllers.

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Speaker 1: I'm not making this up.

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Speaker 6: I do want to point out that various articles that

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Speaker 4: And here's one.

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Speaker 4: That is amazing. And then it says.

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Speaker 4: And they want them in and they want them they

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Speaker 3: This was.

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Speaker 4: This was before I got to office.

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Speaker 6: Recently, second term, the FAA is actively recruiting workers who

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Speaker 6: Where you have many, many planes coming into one target

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Speaker 6: The FAA's website states they include hearing, vision, missing extremities,

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Speaker 6: The initiative is part of the faas Diversity and Inclusion

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Speaker 4: Think of that.

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Speaker 6: The initiative is part of the FAA's Diversity and Inclusion

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I don't think so. I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: This is the truth.

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Speaker 2: This actually was the Biden Bootage edge Dei memorandum.

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Speaker 1: This really was going on.

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Speaker 1: And it's over this stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's permeated every government department, every university, most major corporations.

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Speaker 2: This stuff is everywhere like a plague, like a cancer.

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Speaker 2: And then going back to the lawsuit which spawned this

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Speaker 1: This is insanity.

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Speaker 2: Diversity was supposed to be about finding qualified candidates who

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Speaker 1: Of course, he checked many many boxes. He checked just

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Speaker 1: What this has been going on for ten years?

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine what's working inside the government, what's working

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Speaker 1: Nobody gets fired. They're the ones that are looking for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's now they're hoping like ten percent of the

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Speaker 2: I bet you when they finally get rid of hundreds

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Speaker 1: Do you know the.

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Speaker 2: Government hires two to three hundred thousand people a year.

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Speaker 2: So you take them away and this is some kind

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Speaker 1: All Right, more coming up.

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Speaker 2: On every day from one until four o'clock. We've got

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Speaker 2: another it's another circular insanity because so Cal Edison doesn't

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Speaker 1: Doesn't fund its.

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Speaker 2: Air traffic controllers. As we found out. Here's another story,

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Speaker 2: Over time is at historically high level, said the report.

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Speaker 2: And increasing high rates of overtime for extended periods introduces risk,

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Speaker 2: and that creates absenteeism, lower productivity, and fatigue. When traffic

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Speaker 2: These these guys, these men and women, are tired, they're overworked, frazzled.

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Speaker 2: They've got too many planes. And Congress just increased the

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Speaker 2: allotment of planes at Reagan because they want more access

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Speaker 2: to fly out of town and go back home. So

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Speaker 2: that because Reagan is a relatively small airport and they

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Speaker 2: don't want to use Dulles, which is much larger, but

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Speaker 2: it's thirty miles away. This is just gross missmanagement on

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Speaker 2: every level. The way there's gross miss management of our

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Speaker 1: I mean that one that one killed.

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Speaker 2: This one killed a lot of people in Altadena, thousands,

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Speaker 2: thousands of homes burned. So anyway, we're gonna we're gonna

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Speaker 2: do the altadem thing when we come back. Aery Friedman

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't know why we spend uh like

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Speaker 2: in this state, tens of billions of dollars every year

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Speaker 2: on things like high speed rail, on climate change policies,

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Speaker 2: on illegal aliens, on criminals, billions on homeless people. We

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Speaker 2: spend so much money on drug addicts and mental patients.

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Speaker 1: Like I showed you in La County.

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Speaker 2: We spend more money on homeless drug addicts and mental

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Speaker 1: Why is this?

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Speaker 2: Why is Look look at all the money they have spent,

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Speaker 2: both on a national and a state local level. I'm

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Speaker 2: giving price packages to all the illegal aliens storming over

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Speaker 2: the border, including guys who came over and killed people.

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Speaker 2: They got benefits. I remember the guy who killed the

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Speaker 2: guy who killed Bacon Riley got a free plane ticket

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Speaker 2: from New York City to Georgia. We paid for his

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Speaker 1: Of this together because they choose to spend money on

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Speaker 1: the crazy people, on the criminals, on the illegals, and

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Speaker 1: they won't spend money on our fire department, our police department,

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Speaker 1: on air traffic control, on our water system, on our

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Speaker 1: power system. All right, more coming up, we'll talk to

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Speaker 1: Aarry Friedman Deborah Mark live in the CAFI twenty four

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Speaker 1: our newsroom.

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