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Speaker 1: talk with Brad Garrett now on on the Epstein situation. Brad,

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Speaker 1: how are you as the ABC's Crime and Terrors manalist?

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Speaker 2: Hey? John, Hi, you know I.

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Speaker 1: Remember back when Epstein first hit the news in this matter.

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Speaker 1: I think it was around two thousand and six where

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Speaker 1: curious back then why he got such a light sentence

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Speaker 1: we don't have a client list, we don't have any

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Speaker 3: There is no doubt, I mean even ten seconds. In

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Speaker 3: then they end up letting him plead with no time.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there was apparently enough evidence in that case

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Speaker 3: what strings were pulled. I don't know. There's a lot

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Speaker 3: forward to twenty nineteen, and you know, he gets arrested

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Speaker 3: and he you know, eventually takes his own life there.

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Speaker 3: But the point being is that you have a current

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Speaker 3: president and many of his upper followers for years talenting

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Speaker 3: how you know there's important information in this file. The

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Speaker 3: as you will know, that's occurring up to just a

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Speaker 3: up to that point I don't think they did. They

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Speaker 3: just were working off whatever thoughts they had, and they

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Speaker 3: maybe implicates the president, maybe doesn't in something, but clearly

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Speaker 1: And now this has not been one of my top

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Speaker 1: ten issues in life. I'm far more thrilled that they

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Speaker 1: I'm all thrilled about that, But just it's such a

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Speaker 1: that it's impossible to believe that, oh, well, there's nothing

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Speaker 1: written down. It's like, well, then why was Glen Why

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Speaker 1: I mean, well, there must have been a lot at stake.

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Speaker 3: I think that's exactly right. And you know, it's another

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Speaker 3: great example of be careful what you say before you

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Speaker 3: know what you're talking about, which today obviously is fairly

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Speaker 3: like just knowing that there's a voluminous amount of information.

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Speaker 3: You know, a lot of it's probably not accurate, but

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Speaker 3: why are we still talking about this? But I mean,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's part of the culture now. It's like millions

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Speaker 3: There is no doubt, and I don't see this going

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Speaker 1: I would also think if there's a lot of salacious information,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think there's probably the people who

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Speaker 3: would think, why don't we have more details? And I

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Speaker 3: But it's stuff like that, and you know, like quickly,

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Speaker 3: like back in two thousand and six, allegedly someone said

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Speaker 3: It would support certainly why he was treated with kid

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Speaker 1: No, I've read that too a number of times, and

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Speaker 1: All right, Brad Garrett and I know you got to run.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for spending some time with us here.

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Speaker 4: You're welcome.

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Speaker 2: Take care, John Okay.

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Speaker 1: Brad Garrett from ABC News, the crime and terrorism analyst

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Speaker 1: more is coming out about the crazy person who killed

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Speaker 1: the former music supervisor for American Idol and her husband.

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Speaker 1: We told you, I expected that'd be quite a criminal

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Speaker 1: record he had. I don't know who's responsible for letting

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Speaker 1: The American Idol music supervisor Robin k and her husband

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Speaker 1: shoot each other up in bad neighborhoods. And lyric Post wrote,

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Speaker 1: So I mean this is this is I'm putting this

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Speaker 1: guy's recent criminal history, Raymond Boudarian. It's only twenty two,

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Speaker 1: Hey, let him go, And then a second time you

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna leave this one. Uh, this guy, Raymond Boudarian,

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Speaker 1: He's done more good for LA in California from twenty

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Speaker 1: His name is Steve Farzan and he's accused of impersonating

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Speaker 1: And up until January he was still he'd bring his

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Speaker 1: We are going to have a California assembly woman on

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Speaker 2: It's illegal, it's illegal.

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Speaker 1: to be very disappointed. Everything's a racket. They are not

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Speaker 1: making news reporters as tough as they used to be.

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Speaker 1: They really aren't. This is embarrassing. There's a CBS news

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Speaker 1: reporter named Scott McFarlane. I don't know. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I've ever seen him local. I think he's nice

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Speaker 1: and he's always a Capitol Hill correspondent. He was covering

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Speaker 1: the Trump rally when Trump got shot, and he says

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Speaker 1: he was traumatized. He was not traumatized by seeing Trump

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Speaker 1: get shot. He was traumatized because the crowd immediately erupted

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Speaker 1: in rage against the media, the media that was assembled there.

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Speaker 1: He was on, Oh, Chuck Todd has a puttet podcast. God,

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Speaker 1: is there anybody that doesn't have a podcast? You don't,

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Speaker 1: I do not know?

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Speaker 4: You should I talk enough here?

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Speaker 2: I was going to say, she's technically on yours.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I know, trum, it's all over the place, a

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Speaker 1: vegan podcast. I told you that that is your path

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Speaker 1: to riches.

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Speaker 6: MM.

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Speaker 1: You you micro you you you super serve a micro

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Speaker 1: niche you'll get a lot of advertising.

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Speaker 6: I think I'd rather do something on shoes, all right,

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Speaker 6: I got your speechless, all right.

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Speaker 4: I didn't expect that.

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Speaker 2: I didn't expect that.

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Speaker 1: No, I think there's more to say about veganism than shoes.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, Scott MacFarlane told Chuck Todd about his trauma.

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Speaker 1: For those of us who were there, it was such

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Speaker 1: a horror because you saw an emerging America. Now, when

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Speaker 1: I saw it was such a horror. I thought it

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Speaker 1: was to see, you know, the president go down, he

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Speaker 1: comes up, he's all bloody, right, everybody's screaming. Another guy

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Speaker 1: was shot dead. Guy in the audience right, bullet ripped

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Speaker 1: through him and killed him. No, it was such a

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Speaker 1: horror because you saw an emerging America. And it wasn't

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Speaker 1: the shooting. Chuck I got diagnosed with PTSD with a

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Speaker 1: forty eight hours. He got PTSD not from witnessing the shooting,

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Speaker 1: but being upset by the enraged crowd who had turned

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Speaker 1: and started yelling at the reporters.

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Speaker 4: So was he worried that he was gonna be.

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Speaker 1: Injured, He's gonna be carried off, he goes. I got

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Speaker 1: put on trauma leave. They now have trauma leave for

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Speaker 1: political reporters.

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Speaker 6: No, well, sometimes I think I need trauma leave. John,

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Speaker 6: working with you.

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Speaker 2: You know, you'd probably get it. They would give it

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Speaker 2: to you for that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in fact that they came to me, I would say, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: give it to her. She probably needs to be turned.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, what a little wissie. I mean, how

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Speaker 1: fragile can you be? Kind of remember as a kid,

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Speaker 1: do you remember, like when they had war correspondence reporting

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Speaker 1: live from wherever the war was, whether it was the

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Speaker 1: Gulf War or Vietnam or It's just incredible that that

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Speaker 1: you could see. I mean, there's a guy on Fox now,

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Speaker 1: Trey yinst he's been covering the Israeli war for the

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Speaker 1: last almost two years, and you see explosions behind him.

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Speaker 2: You see the roomies in getting rocked.

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Speaker 6: Not everybody's cut out to do that, John, And he.

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Speaker 1: Said he's not mos to PTSD because some Trump supporters

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Speaker 1: are yelling at him. I got put on trauma leave

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Speaker 1: not because of the shooting, because you saw it in

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Speaker 1: the eyes, in the reaction of people.

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Speaker 2: He got traumatized by their eyes.

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Speaker 1: Eric. We got to find this clip. They were coming

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Speaker 1: for us. I think they got the clip in the

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Speaker 1: Daily Caller. If Trump didn't jump up with his fist,

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Speaker 1: they were gonna come kill us.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So I understand that he was concerned. I do

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Speaker 4: I give him.

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Speaker 2: That trauma leave? Yeah? Yeah, yeah play it.

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Speaker 1: For those of us there, it was such a horror

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Speaker 1: because you saw an emerging America and it wasn't the shooting, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: this was I got diagnosed with PTSD within forty eight hours.

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Speaker 2: I have put on trauma leave.

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Speaker 1: Not because I think of the shooting, but because you

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Speaker 1: could you saw it in the eyes, the reaction to

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Speaker 1: the people.

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Speaker 2: They were coming for us. If he didn't jump up

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Speaker 2: with his fist, they were going to come Ki.

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Speaker 6: So he was worried. He thought he was going to

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Speaker 6: be murdered. Go, you gotta give him a little bit

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Speaker 6: of a break.

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Speaker 4: Maybe not trauma leave. But who am I to say?

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Speaker 2: Well, they were staring at him. These were angry stares.

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Speaker 4: You're next.

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Speaker 1: God, if I had to go on trauma lea for

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Speaker 1: every angry stare I get at home, you'd never see me.

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Speaker 1: Many of us on press Row we talked about this

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Speaker 1: on our text chains for weeks. Our text chains were

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Speaker 1: you scared. Yes, I was scared. I was really scared. Yes, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I was really really scared too. Oh oh, and I'm

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Speaker 1: sure they cover Trump stories and Trump supporters fairly with

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Speaker 1: their PTSD. Dozens of people turned on to me said

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Speaker 1: and said, you did this. This is your fault, you

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Speaker 1: caused this. You killed him, and they were gonna beat

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Speaker 1: us with their hands. I mean they were gonna kill us.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: He needs to get a job at a bakery. I

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Speaker 1: think a vegan bakery. All right, After three, Alexandra Messito Cheesy,

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Speaker 1: the assembly woman in Northern California, and she's gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about Trump pulling the four billion dollars from the high

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