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Speaker 2: is do we have our Ben Siegel here yet? What's

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Speaker 2: that night yet? Okay, in a minute, we're gonna talk

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Speaker 2: with Ben Siegel, ABC News Deputy Political Director. All this

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Speaker 2: is just coming in in the last few minutes. Zoron.

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Speaker 2: Mom Donnie, the incoming New York City mayor, met with

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump face to face at the White House. And

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Speaker 2: you know, Trump and Mundamie have called each other all

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Speaker 2: kinds of terrible things over the last few months. We've

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Speaker 2: got a little clip because Trump does put on a

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Speaker 2: heck of his show. So he's got Mom Donnie in

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Speaker 2: the White House and they invite the orders in and

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Speaker 2: here's an exchange. Do we have that clip? Apparently it

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Speaker 2: froze up. Okay, well tell me when we have it,

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Speaker 2: because it's a good one. Uh Trump Uh and Mom Donnie?

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Speaker 2: Oh wait, okay, restarting, go ahead.

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Speaker 3: I look forward to your answer step and Wilson.

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Speaker 4: He asked about your comment called the president a fascist,

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Speaker 4: and your answer was.

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Speaker 5: President Trump and I can clear about our positions.

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Speaker 2: And our views.

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Speaker 3: Are you affirming that you think President Trump.

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Speaker 6: Is a fascist?

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Speaker 7: I've spoken about That's okay, Okay, that's easier.

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Speaker 1: It's easier than explaining it.

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Speaker 2: Metal, But reporters, are you affirming your view that you

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Speaker 2: think President Trump is a fascist? And he starts probably

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Speaker 2: a word salad, right, he starts tossing a word salad,

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Speaker 2: and goes, it's okay, just say yes, you know, it's

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Speaker 2: a lot easier than try to explain that's so that's hysterical. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: just say yes, you think I'm a fastest fine, okay,

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Speaker 2: whatever you want. All right, let's not go into these

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Speaker 2: tortured words. Settle that. Don't be a wind bag. So

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Speaker 2: this is live now that mom Donnie and Trump. Trump's

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Speaker 2: sitting at his seat. Uh yeah, just dipting. Some people

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Speaker 2: get a sensor what this is like, Mom, Donnie is

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Speaker 2: standing to his left. Do you think you're sitting next

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Speaker 2: to Johnnis right now in the Oval office?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 7: I know, but she's out there campaign and you know,

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Speaker 7: you say things sometimes in a campaign. She's a very

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Speaker 7: capable person, but you know, you really have to ask

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Speaker 2: But I don't particularly.

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Speaker 5: I think I met with a very I.

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Speaker 2: Met with a man who's a very rational person.

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Speaker 1: I met with a man who wants to really wants

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Speaker 1: to see New York be great again.

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Speaker 2: And I can say again because New.

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Speaker 5: You know when I came down to Washington and initially

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Speaker 5: it was moving along. And it went bad. It really went,

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Speaker 5: you know, pretty bad, and he can. I think it's

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Speaker 6: Will?

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Speaker 1: Will he bring it back greater than ever before? Which

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Speaker 1: is I guarantee that's his wish. I think it wants

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Speaker 1: to make it greater than ever before. And if he can,

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Speaker 1: we'll be out there cheering. I'll be cheering for him.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, everybody.

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Speaker 2: Right Trump with the zoron mom, do yes, you heard right?

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Speaker 2: There's so much of this is show business.

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Speaker 3: I was going to say, I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 3: you don't know you, I don't believe anything.

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Speaker 2: Everybody takes the stage, they play, the play a role.

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Speaker 2: You know, Trump's rolls whatever Moodi's in.

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Speaker 8: Right, because we know he doesn't he's not a fan.

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Speaker 2: No, he's calling him a communist.

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Speaker 8: Right, So why didn't he I'm surprised that he didn't

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Speaker 2: Ben Siegel is ABC News Deputy Political director in Washington.

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Speaker 6: Ben, I'm still trying to figure out what happened in

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Speaker 6: that meeting. It was one of the most interesting meetings

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Speaker 2: he did. And they held their little press conference here

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Speaker 6: I think, yeah, you know, that was the big takeaway.

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Speaker 6: I think two big things in there that you know,

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Speaker 6: Donnie clearly played to and you know, building this relationship

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Speaker 6: And one of his first viral videos that he filmed

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Speaker 6: it was interesting to see mom Donnie bring that up

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Speaker 6: We've seen him have nice meetings with Democrats before, and

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Speaker 2: Trump had called Mam Donnie a communist, Mam Donnie had

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Speaker 2: the video, Mam Donnie looking down at Trump like he's uh,

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Speaker 2: It doesn't do his cause any good.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I think that's a great point. And

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Speaker 6: I think that's why you saw him come back time

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Speaker 6: and time and again to this issue of making New

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Speaker 2: In the sky.

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Speaker 6: But there are other things like expanding pre K, universal

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Speaker 6: you know, that gets to this underlying issue of affordability

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Speaker 6: things that President Trump campaigned on. So to the extent

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Speaker 6: but he has clearly has a political movement behind him.

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Speaker 6: He believes he has a mandate from voters in New

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Speaker 2: See, did they discuss publicly anything, any issue of substance,

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Speaker 2: Was anything they agreed or disagreed on in front of

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Speaker 6: A lot with a lot of happy talk and atmospherics.

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Speaker 6: I think one interesting thing, you know, beyond this discussion

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Speaker 2: Talked about housing.

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Speaker 6: They seem to agree that you need to lower the

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Speaker 6: and suggested that, you know, when you get an office,

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Speaker 2: Ben, thanks for coming on. Thank you, Ben Siegel, ABC

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Speaker 2: News Deputy Political director of Washington. The meeting between zoron Mon, Mom, Donnie,

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Speaker 2: it's m A M D A N I it is.

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Speaker 2: It does not flow and and Trump and you know

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Speaker 2: they're smiling and joking and everybody's friends with each other.

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Speaker 2: Now suddenly he's not a communist, He's not a giehattist.

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Speaker 2: Trump is not a death spot.

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Speaker 3: He likes some more than Andrew Cuomo.

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Speaker 2: Well what he what he what he likes? From what

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Speaker 2: I'm reading is is Zorn really knows how to handle

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Speaker 2: the media and is really adept and answering questions. Trump

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Speaker 2: I think from Mom Donnie. All right, when we come

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Speaker 2: beyond our little universe. Everybody knows that the government's lying

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Speaker 2: This is all provable stuff. You notice nobody like Newsom

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Speaker 2: was predictable times. After a ten month review, California officials

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Speaker 2: Right every day from one in till four o'clock after

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Speaker 2: And oh we got the moistline up twice today at

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Speaker 2: He's the reality star who is the loudest, most effective

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Speaker 2: Right? All right? Look at it another way, If we

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Speaker 2: Imagine one hundred and forty eight miles of traffic leading

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Speaker 2: Twenty three and a half million buckets? Would that have helped?

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Speaker 2: So what you have here. And there's a lot of

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Speaker 8: Was anybody challenging this report?

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Speaker 2: I mean, you are, I am, No, We're doing everything

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Speaker 8: Mean, because what you're saying, hopefully somebody else is going

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Speaker 2: It is inconceivable that if you took one hundred and

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Speaker 2: And they're also sticking to this lie that the reservoir

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Speaker 2: you go back to the La Times story of nineteen

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Speaker 2: sixty four, specifically to deal with the fire. They claim, well,

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Speaker 2: you know we had we had to change the cover,

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Speaker 2: you know, because regulations it's harmed the water supply. They

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Speaker 2: never needed it for the water supply. And you know

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Speaker 2: what the proof of that is the reservoir was closed

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Speaker 2: for a year. Do you remember, do you remember any

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Speaker 2: emergencies were people in the Palisades didn't have water, They

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Speaker 2: couldn't shower, they couldn't fill their pools, they had nothing

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Speaker 2: to drink No, there was no water shortage in the

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Speaker 2: Palisades for the year that the reservoir was closed. None.

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Speaker 2: It's a total lie. Lie Number one on this issue

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Speaker 2: is the reservoir was built for fire protection. Number two,

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Speaker 2: it's not needed for drinking water. Otherwise the Palisades would

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Speaker 2: have been out of drinking water that whole year. Number three,

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Speaker 2: even if it had to be fixed, it only took

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Speaker 2: a month, and it only cost one hundred and forty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars. And the depth of the lies and the

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Speaker 2: mis and the cover up is incredible. Ellen Cheng again

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Speaker 2: spokeshole for LEDWP. The report confirms that the Senianez Reservoir

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Speaker 2: was offline to make necessary repairs. False. And the issues

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Speaker 2: with water pressure during the fire response was to do

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Speaker 2: the extraordinary demand on the system, not the inadequate water supply.

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Speaker 2: So let me guess one hundred and seventeen million gallons

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Speaker 2: going through the system would not increase the water pressure.

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Speaker 2: I imagine she typed out this statement because if she

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Speaker 2: said it live, somebody would anybody contradict this nonsense. They

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Speaker 2: keep using the phrase extraordinary demands. And here's an idea,

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Speaker 2: how about building a water system that could handle wildfires?

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Speaker 2: Have we had enough of them? Why isn't our tax

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Speaker 2: money being used to build a modern age water system

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Speaker 2: to handle wildfires?

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Speaker 8: Because our tax money is being used for other more

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Speaker 8: important things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like seventy thousand homeless people. What could we buy

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Speaker 2: with all the money we've spent on the people who

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Speaker 2: lay in the streets whacked out on meth and crack

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Speaker 2: and fent and ill, leaving their bodily waste all over

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Speaker 2: the place, terrorizing people. We didn't spend the billions and

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Speaker 2: billions of dollars of that seventy thousand. What could we

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Speaker 2: do to protect the lives and property of the tens

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Speaker 2: of thousands of people in the Palisades? I just we

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Speaker 2: are going to keep ath this though.

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Speaker 9: Yes, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI

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Speaker 9: A sixty.

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Speaker 2: Coming up after two o'clock. What's going on after two o'clock?

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Speaker 2: Anybody know Karl de Mayo is coming on, and well

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Speaker 2: he's got the total that we're going to spend on

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Speaker 2: the legal alien healthcare in the current budgets now up

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Speaker 2: to thirteen billion dollars, double the original estimate from that

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Speaker 2: lying fiend Newsom. Newsom claimed it was six and a

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Speaker 2: half billion. It's now thirteen billion. By the way, we

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Speaker 2: have a massive budget deficit. So all right, next Thursday,

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Speaker 2: you know, Thanksgiving, and there was this Wall Street Journal

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Speaker 2: article about how many people get stoned during Thanksgiving dinner

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Speaker 2: in order to handle their family.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, no, I mean, I'm not speaking from experience, but

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Speaker 8: I know what happens.

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Speaker 2: It's called the cousin walk. That's right. Did you see

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Speaker 2: this story?

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Speaker 4: No, but I know about it. Oh, it's a social

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Speaker 4: media thing.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's it says, behold the cousin. And I

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Speaker 2: thought I never heard that half of the guests are stoned,

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Speaker 2: according to the headline, because you might notice in the

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Speaker 2: middle of dinner, some family members go to walk the

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Speaker 2: dog or pick up ice or whatever other euphemism is

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Speaker 2: popular now, and people grab their coats, they glance towards

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Speaker 2: the door, so they have some of the cousins go

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Speaker 2: with them, and then they get stoned, and then they

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Speaker 2: come back and everybody's happy. And that's how they deal

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Speaker 2: with family tension.

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Speaker 8: And they are hungrier, right, so they can eat more

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Speaker 8: turkey that's right, we're stuffing.

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Speaker 2: Or more tofu I guess in your kids if marijuana

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Speaker 2: is now legal in forty states for medicinal use and

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Speaker 2: recreational use in more than half of those. Not that

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Speaker 2: that's ever mattered. Oh, it's also known as the pre

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Speaker 2: dinner safety meeting, and it's it's so popular that you've

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Speaker 2: heard of, you know, Black Friday. There's now Green Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Apparently there's a huge surge in pot sales on Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. And I, you know, I'd

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Speaker 2: like to have a drink or two if there's going

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Speaker 2: to be a large group coming over. Yeah, because I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't really enjoy being around people. I know, Well,

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Speaker 2: why not both? Well, yeah, I've never done that. I'm honestly,

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Speaker 2: I've only had like a few puffs of marijuana a

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Speaker 2: long time ago.

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Speaker 3: You're not a candidate to do both at the same time.

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Speaker 2: And then I had that little present you.

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Speaker 8: Give me, right, So I'm just saying no, Yeah, after the.

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Speaker 4: Whole key debacle earlier this week, I don't know if

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Speaker 4: that's a good idea.

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Speaker 2: See, I don't. Yeah, I don't really need to mess

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Speaker 2: with my brain chemistry because I'm barely functional as is,

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Speaker 2: and I don't know whether all that would do. The

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Speaker 2: first rule of the cousin walk is we do not

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Speaker 2: discuss the cousin walk, said one writer. Like you sneak out,

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Speaker 2: you get stoned, you come back in and you just

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Speaker 2: giggle at everybody, and the remaining guests find out that

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Speaker 2: they're a lot funnier and a lot.

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Speaker 3: More interesting by gets along with it very nicely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, if I read one more article about

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Speaker 2: people fighting about politics at Thanksgiving dinner, I mean, but

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Speaker 2: that's the.

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Speaker 3: Number one thing people fight about these.

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Speaker 2: Days, right, I just won't do it. I have an

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Speaker 2: ironclad rule, and I tell my wife this and everybody

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Speaker 2: I said, I don't discuss any of this at all.

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Speaker 2: I just don't. And sometimes I got friends, and you know,

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Speaker 2: they're all they're very excitable, you know, usually about Trump.

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Speaker 2: And I'll listen to them, whether they're right, wrong, whether

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Speaker 2: they're infuriating, whatever it is. I just have this smile

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00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 2: plastered on my face and I nod along, and I

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00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 2: nod along, and I wait until they run out of

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Speaker 2: steam or venom or whatever's motivating them, because I only

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Speaker 2: think in my head. It's like, it really doesn't matter

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Speaker 2: what you think or what I think.

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Speaker 3: So what if they say John, what do you think.

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Speaker 2: I give? I give a very careful political answer depending

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Speaker 2: on who I'm dealing with, and and and to divert

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Speaker 2: the conversation somewhere else. Good because I just I don't

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Speaker 2: want to do it. First of all, I do this right, yeah,

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Speaker 2: last people think I want to talk about this when

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Speaker 2: I don't want to talk about this. All right, I

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Speaker 2: already hit three hours. I got fifteen hours a week.

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Speaker 2: Go listen to the podcast. You want to know what

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Speaker 2: I think. I don't have to do a show at

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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving dinner, unless maybe if I'm stoned. But you see,

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Speaker 2: the thing is, let's if I start telling like the

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Speaker 2: real truth, because I'm like, I'm really bottled up inside.

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Speaker 2: I know you are very bottled up inside. And if

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Speaker 2: I take some substance that lets out what I'm really thinking.

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Speaker 3: That's not You're going to be in a lot of trouble.

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Speaker 2: No, yes, nobody wants to know what's going on in

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Speaker 2: my head all day. I mean, you get a little

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Speaker 2: slip of it here, and it's it's bad enough.

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Speaker 8: And I get some off the air too, right, It's

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Speaker 8: not good, is it?

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Speaker 3: It's okay?

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Speaker 2: All right, we come back. Carl Demile thirteen billion, thirteen billion,

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Speaker 2: big ones for illegal alien healthcare. That's double newsome promise.

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Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You

578
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Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six

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Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,

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