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Speaker 1: we are continuing our efforts to celebrate Jennie Kimune's departure

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Speaker 1: and they decided to throw a party for the woman

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Speaker 1: who helped burn down seven thousand buildings in the Palisades

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Speaker 1: and killed twelve people. It's this Thursday, March twenty sixth

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Speaker 1: at the John Ferrara Building, and that is at one

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Speaker 1: headquarters and they're having it in the eight level auditorium

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Speaker 1: it's an open house, so you can go, all right,

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Speaker 1: so we're all invited. And we have thought that the

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Speaker 1: proper farewell gift would be a garden hose, which they

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Speaker 1: sell on Amazon for nineteen ninety nine. And if you're

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Speaker 1: this would be great if you could send her a

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Speaker 1: garden hose as a going away present, just to remind

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Speaker 1: could have refilled the reservoir. And god knows how many

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Speaker 1: in your head, right, you lost over seven thousand buildings,

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Speaker 1: over six thousand homes. How many homes do you think

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Speaker 1: you could save with one hundred and seventeen million gallons

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Speaker 1: of water? You know, think about that yourself, and in

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Speaker 1: memory of all the people who in the Palisades, and

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Speaker 1: their memories and had their friendships broken up and their

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Speaker 1: worked for years to pay the mortgage. In their honor,

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Speaker 1: send Deenie Canonias a garden hose, one eleven North Hope Street.

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Speaker 1: Just type in on Google DWP headquarters and you'll get

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Speaker 1: the full address. And what did I say? I was going, Oh,

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Speaker 1: Steve Hilton coming on in an hour, Steve Hilton at

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Speaker 1: five o'clock running for governor. Yes, the large month story.

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Speaker 1: I'll do next segment. I wanted to follow up on

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Speaker 1: something else. I mentioned that the House Oversight Committee is

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Speaker 1: doing an investigation now into all the hospice fraud in

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Speaker 1: California that Newsom will not admit to. He is getting

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Speaker 1: pummeled by normal people because now we've had investigations by CBS,

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Speaker 1: Fox News, the California Post assembly Woman Alexandra Messido, the

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Speaker 1: House Oversight Committee is now doing a federal investigation doctor

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Speaker 1: Oz from the Medicare and Medical Medicare, and what's the

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Speaker 1: other one, Medical Medicaid, Medicaid, Medicare and Medicaid Services Center

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Speaker 1: for Medicare and Medicaid Services. So that's about six investigations

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Speaker 1: and they've all come to the same conclusion that there's

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Speaker 1: hundreds of millions, billions of dollars that have been wasted

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Speaker 1: on fake hospices, fake daycare centers here in Van Nyes,

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, many of them run by our median

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Speaker 1: gang members. You know the way that Minneapolis they had

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Speaker 1: It'sa gringa. California post Andy Gousse. The state is now

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Speaker 1: being investigated by this House Oversight Committee, and they demanded

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Speaker 1: all documents and communications relating to audits and oversight. These

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Speaker 1: James Comer, sent a letter to Newsance saying the state

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Speaker 1: has a well documented history of fraud. This is like

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Speaker 1: No laws are being enforced right now. The letter said,

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Speaker 1: recent reporting has revealed alarming evidence of fraudulent activity in

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Speaker 1: California's hospice programs. Agencies overbuilding medicare fraudulently enrolling beneficiaries without

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Speaker 1: have sufficient internal controls to prevent and detect fraud. Let

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Speaker 1: me amend that they have no internal controls none. They're

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Speaker 1: remember he speared Nick Shirley, the Independent Investigator, as a pedophile. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was another big investigation done. I think there's seven investigations,

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Speaker 1: Why this is federal money, there's some state money in there,

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Speaker 1: hundred percent increase in registration since twenty ten. That's registrations

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Speaker 1: in fake hospice providers. There's more than twenty eight hundred

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Speaker 1: Newsom is getting beaten by Pete Buddha Jeedge twenty nine

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Speaker 1: In California she got nine percent, so she's cooked. No

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Speaker 1: and nobody's gonna want to see Newsom either. All right,

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Speaker 1: I think I went twenty years without mentioning Larchmont in

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Speaker 1: Why does it? He say? So? Is there anybody on

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Speaker 1: How about that Karen Bass run on that stupid woman. Meantime,

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Speaker 1: that one. Yes, that's particularly funny. You can visualize that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you think went on? You ever go

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Speaker 1: We'll come back. Steve Hilton running for governor, not that

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Speaker 1: He's a former Fox News host, businessman, formerly an advisor

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