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Speaker 1: La County District Attorney against George Gascon, Eric Sadal. He's

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Speaker 1: a deputy district attorney. He is also the vice president

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Speaker 1: of the Assistant Deputy Left. Let's get the title of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, something like that.

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Speaker 3: So you know, I think this is Look, I think

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Speaker 3: I've been on your show for about five or six years.

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Speaker 3: This is this is the first time we don't have

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Speaker 3: It's a bit of a shock for me.

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Speaker 1: how is it doing that debate? I know you've done

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Speaker 1: How was it for you last week going up against Gascone?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, it was interesting because I really do

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Speaker 1: And then everybody else outside of Gascon in the La

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Speaker 1: It's very democratic, very liberal, and everybody I know is

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Speaker 1: His whole tone in the debate and their tone in

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Speaker 3: And look, if you if you believe that right, if

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Speaker 3: Then you know what you should You should vote for

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Speaker 1: Well, Eric, I wish you the best of luck, and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: You're an excellent candidate, and I wish you the best

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Speaker 2: It, all right.

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Speaker 1: That is Eric Sadal there, and he is the vice

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Speaker 1: Got a lot coming up. One piece of good news,

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Speaker 1: and this is all related, is the organization that has

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Speaker 1: I think the Democratic Socialists of America, the DSA, they're

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Speaker 1: We just talked with Eric Sadal who's a deputy District attorney.

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Speaker 6: Neighbors telling me over thirty cars were broken into overnight

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Speaker 2: The car right here behind me.

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Speaker 6: You see the car, The window just completely smashed it.

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Speaker 7: And I noticed that my driver's windshield was kind of

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Speaker 6: Well, there was a police report that was filed today

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Speaker 1: There you go, thirty cars in Westchester, and that comes

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Speaker 1: The headline is once glamorous Boulevard is filthy, overrun by

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Speaker 1: homelessness and struggling to cope with soaring crime. You don't

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Speaker 1: see that happen that headline about the wealthy districts in

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Speaker 1: LA or the wealthy suburbs. No, it's always the poor

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Speaker 1: people in the middle class who have to live with

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Speaker 1: the consequences of how the wealthy elites vote. Not that

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Speaker 1: the poor people vote any better, but the wealthy people

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Speaker 1: financed the campaigns. The wealthy people are the ones who

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Speaker 1: have this weird ideology that they think the government always

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Speaker 1: does the right thing. Well, government, you know what go

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Speaker 1: walk down Hollywood Boulevard, because my wife and I did

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Speaker 1: a couple of times last year. We'd park there and

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Speaker 1: then walk up to the Hollywood Bowl because the parking

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Speaker 1: situation at the ball was so terrible it was easier

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Speaker 1: to park in a lot until we realized we had

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Speaker 1: to walk down Hollywood Boulevard at night after the concert

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Speaker 1: a couple of times.

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Speaker 2: Not going to do that again.

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Speaker 1: So they got a story now in the LA Daily,

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Speaker 1: not the LA the Daily Mail out of London, and

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Speaker 1: they are finally going to close off a one and

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Speaker 1: a quarter mile stretch to do a much read a

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Speaker 1: much needed renovation because the sidewalks are often congested and

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Speaker 1: is filled with with homeless people in mental patience and

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Speaker 1: it is it is one of the scariest walks that

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Speaker 1: you could take in LA. So they're going to make

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Speaker 1: wider sidewalks, put up shade trees, a protected mobility lane,

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Speaker 1: I guess what they used to be called a bicycle lane,

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Speaker 1: and pedestrian safety enhancements. It's filled with dirty sidewalks and

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Speaker 1: people are victims of assaults with a deadly weapon, sexual assaults,

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Speaker 1: homeless people assaulting. It is an outdoor insane asylum. But

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Speaker 1: you know what, they're trying to clean the city up

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Speaker 1: because the Olympics are coming in twenty twenty eight, and

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Speaker 1: that may seem like a long way away, but when

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Speaker 1: you have the kind of work they need to do,

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Speaker 1: they also want to improve the aesthetics, come up with

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Speaker 1: a cohesive design for Hollywood Boulevard. But it's not being

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Speaker 1: done for us. It's not being done for the local residents.

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Speaker 1: It's being done for all the visitors who are coming

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Speaker 1: for the Olympics. It's like when Gavin Newsom cleaned up

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Speaker 1: San Francisco for a few days when the president.

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Speaker 2: Of China was coming.

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Speaker 1: Then he did all the things that San Francisco residents

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Speaker 1: had been begging for for ten years finally got done

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Speaker 1: for the Chinese president. Now I wonder on that stress

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Speaker 1: on that stretch in San Francisco, if all the vagrants

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Speaker 1: moved back in, if the mental patients found their way

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Speaker 1: to their old neighborhoods.

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Speaker 2: And so that's what their.

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Speaker 1: Channel five analyzed the crime day, and it was deadly

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Speaker 1: weapon sexual assaults, homeless. One woman ainting the shell said

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Speaker 1: she was punched in the face. All she was doing

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Speaker 1: was errands on the boulevard. She says, I've seen people

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Speaker 1: with machetes and knives slicing in the air, slicing the

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Speaker 1: air in front of them. I've seen people selling drugs

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Speaker 1: out of the back of a truck. I've witnessed a

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Speaker 1: hots hostage situation at one of the apartment complexes. I

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Speaker 1: was punched in the back of the head by a

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Speaker 1: homeless person. This is one woman. How many times do

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Speaker 1: you have to see or experience that before you find

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Speaker 1: another neighborhood to shop in. And this is the stretch

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Speaker 1: that has the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This is the

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Speaker 1: stretch where they close off for movie premieres. And it

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Speaker 1: must have affected tourism or do Most tourists don't know

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Speaker 1: till they get there, and then they find it terribly disgusting.

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Speaker 1: The press were says. The goal of the Hollywood Walk

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Speaker 1: of Fame master plan is to move this iconic cord

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Speaker 1: or forward into the twenty first century, respecting its rich

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Speaker 1: history while establishing a holistic and long lasting vision. But

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Speaker 1: if you don't get the homeless people off the street

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Speaker 1: and put the criminals in prison, well what's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: It's not gonna take long. If the homeless start taking

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Speaker 1: their filthy dumps on the Walk of Fame all over again.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's rows and rows of tents, people sleeping

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Speaker 1: on top of the Walk of Fame stars, garbage all

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Speaker 1: over the sidewalks. And oh, by the way, they cut

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Speaker 1: the officer patrols by half recently.

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Speaker 2: Ah Conway's here.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Now, well, we got the big debate on it

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Speaker 4: at six o'clock, the Senate debate, and that will be

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Speaker 4: honest with Fox eleven. Moke Kelly's gonna be part of that,

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Speaker 4: and we're going to carry that live at six o'clock, the.

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Speaker 2: Three Democratic candidates and Steve Garvey.

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Speaker 4: That's right, should be very exciting. Did I oversell it? Uh?

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Speaker 2: No, you didn't. You're a little undersold.

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Speaker 4: And then John Kerry has left the global warming business

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Speaker 4: and now he's going to work on trying to get

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Speaker 4: Joe Biden reelected, which I thought was odd because for

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Speaker 4: the last ten years I've been told that the biggest

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Speaker 4: threat to the planet is not Joe Biden, it's climate change. Well,

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Speaker 4: I think Kerry made his money, but why would he

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Speaker 4: Why would he leave us without a climate change zar

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Speaker 4: if the world's going to end? You know, isn't that

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Speaker 4: the most important job. No, it's it's just a money racket.

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Speaker 4: That's all what you get out of here. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 4: you and your your what is that that kool aid?

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Speaker 4: That QAnon thing?

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Speaker 2: You conspiracy theory?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you and Mando with those QAnon meetings. Come on, John,

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Speaker 4: you can't possibly believe that. Look, it's raining outside. I

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Speaker 4: think they all though that they're selling a scam.

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Speaker 2: I do think. Well, they wouldn't be to you. You

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Speaker 2: think he'd be flying a private plane every week. I

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Speaker 2: don't know how Elly was worried about the climate. I

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Speaker 2: don't know who to believe. I don't know. All right, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you the truth, all right.

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Speaker 4: And then not only that, we have some good football

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Speaker 4: games over the weekend. We'll give you a preview on

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Speaker 4: what the spread is for the next weekend. And then

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Speaker 4: we also have there was something else here. Oh the rain, rain, rain, rain, rain.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna talk about when that's gonna split.

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Speaker 2: All right? Conways, that big dong with you?

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