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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I know what you were gonna.

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Speaker 2: Say, b l MTV. That's all I got to say.

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Speaker 2: Alex Stone's coming on with us. You know this this

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Speaker 2: this this stuff is just like so overhyped. You've you've

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Speaker 2: had some attacks on Tesla's and of course some of

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Speaker 2: the media wanted to portray it as America turning on

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Speaker 2: Elon Musk and turning on Donald Trump. But look, and

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Speaker 2: then it turns out to be a thirty six year

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Speaker 2: old loser in Las Vegas who set fire to a

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Speaker 2: bunch of Tesla's Molotov cocktails. Anyway, the authorities got him

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Speaker 2: and Alex has the details. Yeah, hey John, So yeah,

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Speaker 2: we learned a lot of information in the last little while.

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Speaker 2: You remember a week ago when this unfolded, Pam Bondi

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Speaker 2: that the AG was saying, this is domestic terrorism and

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Speaker 2: Elon Musk was as well. The sheriff in Vegas is

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Speaker 2: saying they don't really know if there's a coordinated thing

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Speaker 2: here that they're still looking into it. They don't see anything,

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Speaker 2: but thirty six year old Paul Kim is who they

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Speaker 2: if he has links to some organized thing or if

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Speaker 2: people who are sympathetic to what he did and the

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Speaker 2: you know, what people are doing to Tesla's if they're

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Speaker 2: just kind of doing it individually. And they still don't know,

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Speaker 2: but Vegas police say that they have figured out a

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Speaker 2: lot about him. He's got he's sympathetic, it appears to

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Speaker 2: different ideological groups, and that they can see based on

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Speaker 2: his yeah online activity. So this is a Vegas Assistant

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Speaker 2: Sheriff Dory Korn a little while ago.

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Speaker 4: Saying preliminary spent of the suspects social media activity indicates

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Speaker 4: some very loose but self proclaimed ties to the Communist

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Speaker 4: Party USA social media group, as well as social media

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Speaker 4: groups called Revolutionary Communists International, Hidden Palestine, Palestine Action, and

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Speaker 2: Of other social media groups.

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Speaker 4: That is part of our investigations to dig further into

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Speaker 4: it and to be able to determine additional motive and

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Speaker 2: So he's charged locally and then a few minutes ago

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Speaker 2: federal charges. There's a federal arrest warrant that was also issued.

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Speaker 2: The charges are mainly arson and gun charges and having

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Speaker 2: incendiary devices. No talk of charging them with terrorism, even

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Speaker 2: though Bondi and Mosque had said, well this was clearly terrorism,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't seem like it fits the bill of that yet.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what the differentiation is? Yeah, there are

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Speaker 2: and I don't have the law in front of me,

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Speaker 2: but very specific things that the terrorism has to fit

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Speaker 2: for them to check. And the FBI, the Joint Terrorism

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Speaker 2: Task Force is the investigating group into this, and the

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Speaker 2: special Agent in charge to the FBI and Vegas. He said,

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Speaker 2: it does have some of the telltale signs of terrorism,

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Speaker 2: but there's a big jump when you go from vandalism essentially,

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Speaker 2: teslas on fire. So they have to kind of weigh

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Speaker 2: what it is and the magnitude of what they're dealing with,

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Speaker 2: but these are more like vandalism charges. Could change, They

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Speaker 2: But the key part of this, as they have laid

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Speaker 2: with this grainy surveillance video of a car and headlights

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Speaker 2: grainy image of somebody dressed all in black with a

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Speaker 2: get fingerprints. And they went from there, and the sheriff

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Speaker 2: had nothing to go on. The evidence was just not there.

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Speaker 2: But they used technology and surveillance videos and license play

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Speaker 4: Desire to become the most technologically advanced police department in

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Speaker 2: This case is not solved without the use of technology.

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Speaker 2: So they had over two hundred and fifty investigators and

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Speaker 2: this guy, Paul Kim, And they even found DNA that

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Speaker 2: he left to the crime scene on It appears to

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Speaker 2: have been on one of the unexploded Molotov cocktails. But

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Speaker 2: they got DNA from this scene where it was essentially

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Speaker 2: a vandalism scene. And then last night when they arrested him,

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Speaker 2: they got his They used a buckle swab and got

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Speaker 2: His electronic devices are right now being analyzed by the

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Speaker 2: FBI that they're going through those. There was one other thing,

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Speaker 2: there was pink riding on the building that the suspect

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Speaker 4: He also recovered a black gun belt with a pouch

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Speaker 2: So there you go. So he's under arrest, long list

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Speaker 2: of charges. They're still being working on trying to figure

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Speaker 2: out if he's linked to something bigger. But in eight

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Speaker 2: days and they're pretty proud of themselves in Vegas that

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Speaker 2: they went from knowing nothing and thinking this could be

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Speaker 2: with just grainy surveillance and no good shots to have

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Speaker 2: license plates, to being able to catch them and they've

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Speaker 2: got them in jail. Now. Wow, I mean that's that

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Speaker 2: would be a great movie. Actually, I'd like to know

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Speaker 2: all the technology that they have. Now they don't want

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Speaker 2: you to know all of the technology, and they've got it,

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Speaker 2: but I want to know that they're very proud of

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Speaker 2: it though, that they feel like in Vegas and they're

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Speaker 2: really leading the chick in the way they usedide won

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Speaker 2: if the pink paint was supposed to be his calling

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Speaker 2: card and then just called me the pink panther and

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Speaker 2: tail attacker. Yeah, who's the guy who gets the job

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Speaker 2: of scraping the DNA off the unexploded Molotov cocktail? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: well some new old tech had to do that and

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Speaker 2: figure that out. And how they got the DNA wasn't

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Speaker 2: got some skin cells off of that. But yeah, he

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Speaker 2: had a rifle, fired it into the cars, set two

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Speaker 2: but it was two of that were totally damaged. All right,

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Speaker 2: good stuff, Alex Stone, Thank you you got it. By

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Speaker 2: John alex Stone from KFI News UH thirty six years old.

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Speaker 2: Paul jan Kim and the Communists are having a comeback.

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Speaker 2: He's apparently connected to several communist groups. And they had

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Speaker 2: Tesla dealerships and Tesla's and charging stations attacked in Seattle,

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Speaker 2: Kansas City, Missouri, and Charleston. This is the progressive crowd

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Speaker 2: that was screaming about climate change. Elon Musk produces the

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Speaker 2: and now he's public enemy number one and people are

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Speaker 2: You see how insane these people are. He should have

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Speaker 2: been their hero. Nobody else built an electric car that

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Speaker 2: which shows you it's not about the issue. It's about

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Speaker 2: They're losers. You're thirty six years old and you're setting

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Speaker 2: They're angry, they're jealous. They've missed out on life. They

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Speaker 2: other people's stuff. They set fire to other people's stuff too,

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Speaker 2: Squatters took over an abandoned luxury RV park. They moved

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Speaker 2: into the RVs and they wouldn't leave, and then local

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Speaker 2: authorities found that it's difficult to remove squatters because in

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Speaker 2: California there are laws that protect the squatters. We've got

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Speaker 2: to report from Fox Leven and Haley Winslow coming up,

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Speaker 2: up with enormous piles of trash fires. Fires. Remember in

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Speaker 2: the city seventeen thousand fires started by the vagrants every year. Well,

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Speaker 2: Let's go to play's story from Hailey Winslow, Fox eleven.

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Speaker 2: I'm leaving. I'm out of here.

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Speaker 3: God, there's no help. There's no help back on the streets.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I go moving day at this dirt parking lot

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Speaker 2: It's scary.

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Speaker 6: It's a scary thing for those that don't have family

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Speaker 6: to open up their doors too. Some long gone in

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Speaker 6: the past twenty four hours with their travel trailer. This

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm mostly here because it rained in.

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Speaker 7: I didn't want to be out in the rain.

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Speaker 6: The growing encampment has been home to a lot of

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Speaker 6: problems over the past couple of years, constant fires, burglaries,

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Speaker 2: The outside has painting a picture as being drug attics,

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Speaker 6: Not like that with their marijuana plants, dogs and water.

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Speaker 6: Well until recently shut off neighbors. Lean and Kimberly say

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Speaker 6: this is more like a community campground, and some say

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Speaker 3: It is keeping me warm at night. It's probably make

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Speaker 3: Yeah, another travel story.

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Speaker 2: fascinating because this poor couple, Christy and Paul Akeo, have

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Speaker 3: Can you imagine When I.

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Speaker 2: First heard the headline on this, I thought, of you,

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Speaker 2: So they had a timeshare deal with Palace Resorts, and

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Speaker 2: Well, Palace Resorts disagrees. Okay, they claim that that Christy

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Speaker 3: Okay, but wait a second, don't post either.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 8: But are they saying that for people to legitimately I mean,

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess that you could have two different interpretations.

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Speaker 2: I'm here in a maximum security prison in Mexicano. I've

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Speaker 3: This is didn't kill anybody.

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Speaker 2: They claim the resort did not allow them to use

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Speaker 3: I have their pain.

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Speaker 2: Are they a pain because you want to go a

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Speaker 8: You're looking to go to Hawaii for Christmas, forget it.

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Speaker 2: it's time for it to be done. Well, the Akios

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Speaker 8: Oh no, so they have to stay in that maximum

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Speaker 8: They didn't just so they disputed this while they were

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Speaker 2: No, they came home. They keep going back to their problem.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't do that.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's why you're not in prison.

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Speaker 3: Maybe that's why.

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Speaker 2: No, they keep they kept going back. They've gone for

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Speaker 2: Uh. The Palace Company subsidiary it's called Palace Elite, filed

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Speaker 2: So not only six months for evidence, but they're going

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Speaker 2: So they said, we have to engage in preventative detention

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Speaker 3: You don't want to mess with the Mexican.

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Speaker 2: Government, No you don't. You can't appeal to the judges.

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Speaker 2: You can't expect the police to help you out. The

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Speaker 3: And then don't go back. If you're just.

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Speaker 2: Government, don't make it a public case on Facebook. Nobody

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Speaker 2: cares anyway. You know. I always ask this, like I

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Speaker 2: did about those squatters at the RV, What did you do?

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Speaker 2: You're in a Mexican prison, What did you do? What

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Speaker 2: can you do better next time? It's like a half

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Speaker 2: a dozen things these people could have done differently. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: like just pay your freaking bill.

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Speaker 3: So you think they are scammers?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think there's scammers.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: Some people are just you can't please them, you know,

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Speaker 2: and they get really worked up, maybe over small things,

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Speaker 2: and they want their money back right away for everything.

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Speaker 2: You know that you know they don't want to pay

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Speaker 2: a restaurant bill because maybe the steak was a little overdone,

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Speaker 2: and you know they want the entire table comped. You

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Speaker 2: know those kind of people. Yeah, I wish, I wish.

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Speaker 2: I wish your whole life was recorded. Why I can

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Speaker 2: use examples on the air to explain my point.

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Speaker 3: Why you're probably could like you don't want.

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Speaker 2: To do this. Your vegan meal doesn't come back, Well, yeah.

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Speaker 8: There, you know what really quick, let me just tell

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Speaker 8: you I was at this restaurant. I'm not kidding, So

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Speaker 8: I said, I want vegan pasta, so no dairy, no

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Speaker 8: animal products. So basically I said, just how about some

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Speaker 8: noodles and some olive oil or white wine sauce. I

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Speaker 8: don't care garlic and vegetables. So it comes back with

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Speaker 8: cheese all over it. So I send it back and

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Speaker 8: and it doesn't. It doesn't come back. I mean, I

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Speaker 8: don't get the proper the correct course doesn't come back.

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Speaker 8: So I asked the.

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Speaker 3: Waitress or the waiter I can't remember, and they said, oh,

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Speaker 3: we're working out. We're working on it. We're working on it.

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Speaker 3: So my husband's already way done.

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Speaker 8: So we get the manager and he says, okay, it's

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Speaker 8: coming it's coming.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So I'm waiting and waiting. It's so stupid.

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Speaker 8: This is so easy to take two seconds. This is

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Speaker 8: this is not a steak that we're cooking here.

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Speaker 2: No food for you, So the Mexican prison for you.

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Speaker 3: The manager comes.

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Speaker 8: Back to me and says, it's still going to be

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Speaker 8: another ten minutes.

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Speaker 3: I said, forget it. My husband's already done. We're going

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Speaker 3: to leave. And he said, okay, well we won't charge you.

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Speaker 3: I said, well, why would you charge me?

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Speaker 8: I never got the food.

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Speaker 2: There you go, that's where you end up in prison.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't do that in Mexican.

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Speaker 2: Because you won't accept the no charge, you have to

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Speaker 2: make a public case and scold the guests.

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Speaker 8: Stupid to tell me we're not going to of course

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Speaker 8: you're not going to charge me.

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Speaker 3: I never got my food.

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Speaker 2: And then you go on Facebook and you do it

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Speaker 2: right on Facebook, and next thing you know, you're being level.

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Speaker 3: I can't even say the name of the restaurant.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on Demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 2: So yesterday we went through part of a story from

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Speaker 2: Stephanie Sierra of KGOTV about all the outrageous travel by

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Speaker 2: that knucklehead where Cardo Lara Calphart Lara, who's the insurance commissioner,

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Speaker 2: who's botched up the whole insurance industry. Everything's too expensive,

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Speaker 2: a lot of companies have pulled out now, the Fair Plan,

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Speaker 2: the California insurance backup program that's going to go bankrupt,

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Speaker 2: and he skips Senate meetings repeatedly to go traveling all

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Speaker 2: over the world. The latest one is he went to

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Speaker 2: Bermuda for a fifteen minute speech instead of talking to

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Speaker 2: the Senate to explain what's going on here. Here is

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Speaker 2: more of the story where Stephanie Sierra gets into the

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Speaker 2: long list of vacations where Cardo Lara takes many of

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Speaker 2: them at the taxpayer's expense.

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Speaker 9: It's video Recordings from the Senate website show Lada only

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Speaker 9: joined those hearings via zoom once.

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Speaker 2: Great to be here, thank you so much for taking

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Speaker 2: the time.

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Speaker 9: In January twenty twenty four, and that hearing was the

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Speaker 9: first one hosted after the governor signed an executive order

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Speaker 9: calling on Lada to do more to address the insurance crisis.

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Speaker 9: Records show after that he attended most of the other

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Speaker 9: Assembly insurance hearings last year. Do you think he should

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Speaker 9: have been there last week?

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Speaker 3: Well, that's not for me to say.

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Speaker 7: How do you represent the state if you're not even

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Speaker 7: there at these meetings. I understand you can send your

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Speaker 7: staff to fill in for you on occasion, but it

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Speaker 7: sends a message of I think what he believes is important.

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Speaker 9: Ray Asbell worked under the California Department of Insurance and

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Speaker 9: cal HR for more than a decade, specializing in travel policy.

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Speaker 9: He explains, each state department requires there must be an

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Speaker 9: established travel need.

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Speaker 7: What is your department's core missioner? Howell this travel benefit

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Speaker 7: that mission and benefit in this case, the ratepayers of California.

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Speaker 9: The commissioner was unavailable for an interview to discuss his

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Speaker 9: travel schedule, but his staff provided this comment regarding the

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Speaker 9: Bermuda trip. Commissioner Lada's job is to ensure that California

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Speaker 9: consumers have real choices, not just last resorts. This involves

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Speaker 9: going over the heads of insurance companies and engaging directly

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Speaker 9: with the global reinsurance groups that support them. He is

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Speaker 9: working to retain insurance companies in the market and attract

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Speaker 9: those that have left. We asked how many insurance companies

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Speaker 9: have been retained to support California's insurance market, but we have.

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Speaker 7: Yet to hear back frankly that people should be outraged to.

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Speaker 9: Put this trip in perspective. Seven on Your Side obtained

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Speaker 9: and analyzed hundreds of public records detailing the Commissioner's expenses

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Speaker 9: made since assuming office in twenty nineteen. Lada made at

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Speaker 9: least forty six trips across the country and all over

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Speaker 9: the world, but as we found out, a significant chunk

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Speaker 9: of the records are missing and the state has been

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Speaker 9: unable to provide them, including work related trips where he

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Speaker 9: is pictured or listed as a speaker in Singapore, Cape Town,

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Speaker 9: South Africa, Dublin, Costa Rica, Chile, Egypt, Tokyo, Glasgow, and Dubai,

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Speaker 9: plus a handful of trips to these states. With that said,

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Speaker 9: the trip receipts we do have are not cheap. For context,

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Speaker 9: record show Illinois Insurance Commissioner spent six hundred and eighty

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Speaker 9: dollars for the entire year of twenty twenty two. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 9: during the first six months of Lada's term, his cross

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Speaker 9: country and international trips cost taxpayers more than thirty three

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Speaker 9: thousand dollars. This includes an all expenses paid week long

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Speaker 9: trip at a luxury five star hotel in Bogota, Columbia

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Speaker 9: for an LGBTI political leaders conference, and another flight and

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Speaker 9: five star hotel stay in New York City for PrideFest.

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Speaker 9: For his schedule listed a vip rooftop event with DJ

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Speaker 9: Kitty Glitter. We should note the four day trip did

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Speaker 9: not list any insurance related meetings on his schedule.

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Speaker 7: Yet, as on scratching my head as a hedgecratchery, when

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Speaker 7: somebody travels, it really should be something that is mission critical.

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Speaker 9: Receipts showed Lata made a request for a fourteen thousand

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Speaker 9: dollars mission critical trip to Chile in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 2: She's up year.

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Speaker 9: Why For more than a month, We repeatedly asked the

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Speaker 9: state what the business purpose was for those trips, but

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Speaker 9: have yet to get a direct answer. Instead, Lada's staff

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Speaker 9: appeared to have restated parts of his bio in an

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Speaker 9: email that started with insurance Commissioner Ricardo Latta as a

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Speaker 9: recognized global leader in addressing the impact of climate change

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Speaker 9: on insurance markets, going on to say our goal is transparency.

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Speaker 9: Yet none of that answered our questions, So I followed

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Speaker 9: up again and again and again with a very specific

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Speaker 9: list of questions about those trips, and his office eventually

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Speaker 9: told me this, we have conducted an exhaustive search and

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Speaker 9: found no records of attendance at these events. That's interesting

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Speaker 9: given the commissioner is pictured many of these events and conferences.

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Speaker 9: Not to mention, seven on your side obtained receipts from

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Speaker 9: his flights and hotels days.

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Speaker 3: So I followed up again.

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Speaker 9: His staff did not provide any answer, but instead wrote,

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Speaker 9: I'm glad we were able to help you. So, as

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Speaker 9: you can see, we did not get much of an

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Speaker 9: answer there. The state has also been unable to identify what,

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Speaker 9: if any regulatory action or benefit to California's insurance market

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Speaker 9: that came as a result from all these trips.

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Speaker 2: There isn't Eddie. He's a grifter. He's a crook, That's

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Speaker 2: what he is. This is stealing tax money so he

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Speaker 2: could party around the world. Let's run through all the

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Speaker 2: sites again that he's traveled to. Paris, Bogata, Bermuda, Uruguay, Hawaii, Washington, Florida, Toronto, Singapore,

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Speaker 2: Cape Town, Dudley, Costa Rica, Chile, Egypt, Tokyo, Glasgow, Dubai, Arizona, Illinois,

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Speaker 2: New York, Rhode Island, Washington, d C. Connecticut, the United Kingdom.

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Speaker 2: Did I mention Uruguay? Yes, yes, he spent eight days

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Speaker 2: in the UK. He he went to Honolulu for policy training.

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Speaker 2: Four star hotel bill. We paid for that, luxury trips,

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Speaker 2: luxury hotels. We spent six thousand dollars so he could

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Speaker 2: go to Paris. I mean the winner is the all

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Speaker 2: expense paid week long trip to the LGBTQ Political Leaders

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Speaker 2: Conference in Bogota, Colombia. That's my favorite. Oh well maybe

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Speaker 2: this one. A flight and a five star hotel in

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Speaker 2: New York City for Pride Fest, a vip rooftop event

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Speaker 2: with DJ Kitty Glitter. Four days, no insurance meetings. He's

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Speaker 2: a grifter, he's a crook. Of course, he doesn't want

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Speaker 2: to release any records. We got everything we need to know.

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Speaker 2: He should be at office. He should be forced to resign,

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Speaker 2: and he's found to the insurance industry, Go look at

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Speaker 2: your insurance bill. Why is it so high? Big part

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Speaker 2: of the reason is the mismanagement of this character, a

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Speaker 2: complete fraud whose only other claim to fame was trying

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Speaker 2: to require cows wear machines on their back to catch

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Speaker 2: their farts because their farts caused climate change. Seriously, go

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Speaker 2: look it up. He's not known for anything else. People

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Speaker 2: in this state have elected him twice to the Insurance

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Speaker 2: Commissioner twice. When we come back, we'll have more on him.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk with Katie Grimes from California Globe,

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Speaker 2: who's researching this story as well. Debra Marc is live

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Speaker 2: in the KFI twenty four hour News or Hey, you've

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