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Speaker 2: You're just joining us now.

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Speaker 3: We had an hour long celebration about the demise of

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Speaker 3: Janice Quinnez as the head of the DWP. Bass finally

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Speaker 3: launched her because Bass is running for reelection.

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Speaker 2: She can't afford to be on TV.

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Speaker 3: When somebody says, hey, Jenise Communias didn't fill up the reservoir.

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Speaker 3: She had one thousand hydrants broken and she never cut

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Speaker 3: the power off to the electrical lines and that started

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Speaker 3: a whole new round of fires that night. Back on

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Speaker 3: January seventh, why do you still have her as the

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Speaker 3: head of the DWP. She couldn't fill the reservoir during

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Speaker 3: high fire season. So Bass realized I can't answer that question.

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Speaker 3: I gotta get rid of her. So now, oh, excuse me.

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Speaker 3: She wasn't fired. She's part of a planned transition. That

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Speaker 3: is that the phrase they use, yes, a planned transition,

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Speaker 3: a coordinated trans I knew there was another word, Yes,

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Speaker 3: a planned coordinated transition. Now she got booted and she

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Speaker 3: never should have been hired. Diversity higher and it was

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Speaker 3: pretty apparent when we played the clips last hour. That's

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Speaker 3: all she babbled about equity and social justice and nonsense.

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Speaker 2: So the person who's going to get her job, you think,

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Speaker 2: is going to make more or less?

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: The thing is what's fair is you can't get you

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Speaker 3: can't get somebody less qualified and less able the genie kinones.

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Speaker 3: So if she has set the standard at seven hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty thousand, then I guess the next person ought

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Speaker 3: to get more because she had no qualifications for doing this.

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Speaker 2: All right, John, I'm going to put my hat in

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Speaker 2: that running. Yeah. I don't know why you're sitting there.

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Speaker 2: I already actually did apply.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you could babble about Earth Day absolutely, you know,

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Speaker 3: you could throw it and make reservoirs are filled. You

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Speaker 3: could throw in a program for veganism. I could and

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Speaker 3: do press conferences on that. It's not so hard now,

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Speaker 3: it's easy. But there's one one dope who's been involved

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Speaker 3: in a number of scandals in a very short time,

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Speaker 3: and he's back at work. This is the California High

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Speaker 3: Speed Rail Authority. CEO Ian Shaudri. This is the latest

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Speaker 3: guy to take over a state agency that has stolen

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Speaker 3: what seventeen billion dollars from California taxpayers and not laid

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Speaker 3: down any track, not produced any track at all. And

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Speaker 3: so Shaudry has been part of the scam, running running,

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Speaker 3: running it for the last couple of years, I guess

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Speaker 3: as the CEO. And then last month he was arrested

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Speaker 3: on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic violence. He ended up in

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Speaker 3: a tussle with his living girlfriend and Chaudri's daughter. SHAUDRII

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Speaker 3: came back from a Gavin Newsom press conference where they

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Speaker 3: tried to pretend they're making progress on high speed rail,

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Speaker 3: and after dealing with that nonsense, he comes home and

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Speaker 3: there's some fight going on between the fiance and the daughter,

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Speaker 3: and he gets involved and spills out to the front lawn.

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Speaker 3: It's midnight, so the neighbors call the police and they

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Speaker 3: cuff up Shawdry and take them away to jail. He

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Speaker 3: and eventually it got leaked to KCRA channel three and

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Speaker 3: they reported it and since February seventeenth, Chouduri has been

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Speaker 3: on administrative leave using his paid time off, So these

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Speaker 3: a lot of that. The thing is so, I mean

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Speaker 3: this scandal number two. Number scandal Number one is he's

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Speaker 3: with high speed Rail. The company is KPMG, which is

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Speaker 3: to see the phone call records on how that worked out.

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Speaker 3: Who called who to arrange this? So he's back at work,

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Speaker 3: I assume she's still as the job and they're going

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Speaker 3: to go on that agency is going to go on

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Speaker 3: looting the taxpayer by not laying down any track. Good,

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Speaker 3: everything's working according to plan. Speaking of wasted money, you'll

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Speaker 3: enjoy this. Get cut one ready. Ashley Zavalla again is

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Speaker 3: the kcra Channel three Sacramento political director, the only person

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Speaker 3: corruption Listen to her report. California taxpayers are paying for

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Speaker 3: Kamala Harris's security during her book tour.

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Speaker 5: With several stops left on her nationwide book tour, Vice

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Speaker 5: President Kamala Harris continues to use California Highway Patrol officers

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Speaker 5: as her personal security that multiple sources unauthorized to speak

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Speaker 5: publicly about security matters told KCRA three she has dozens

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Speaker 5: six months and counting. The long list of stops have

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Speaker 5: North Carolina, and Georgia. She's promoting her book One hundred

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Speaker 5: four race. Governor Gavin Newsom's office, which ultimately approved the protection,

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Speaker 5: said it does not comment on security arrangements. State officials

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Speaker 5: won't provide specifics or say how much it's costing. Sources

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Speaker 5: tell us there are still credible breaths against her, and

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Speaker 5: do you have a sense of how much this could

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Speaker 5: be costing taxpayers?

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Speaker 6: All I know is it's a lot. It is a

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Speaker 5: Retired California Highly Patrol officer and Republican Assemblyman Tom Lackey

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Speaker 5: said state law allows for her protection because she served

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Speaker 5: as California's Attorney General.

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Speaker 7: We're living in kind of an unstable environment right now,

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Speaker 7: so it's really hard to predict circumstances and people's behavior,

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Speaker 7: and so she deserves that kind of protection. But where

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Speaker 7: the slippery slope starts to show up as the personal.

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Speaker 6: Gain aspect, Right when someone's making an opportunity to make money,

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Speaker 6: should they be provided that same protection at taxpayer expense?

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Speaker 1: The public obviously is entitled to know what the cost

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Speaker 5: A junk McGeorge School of Law professor and longtime California

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Speaker 5: lobbist Chris mckayley said former state elected officials don't typically

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Speaker 5: get this kind of protection, including former governors.

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Speaker 1: I think folks have to examine the precedent being set.

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Speaker 1: But when it comes to is it the right thing

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Speaker 1: to do? Yes, but how much it is costing taxpayers

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Speaker 5: I reached out to the former vice president for comment

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Speaker 5: and more information on all of this, again sensitive to

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Speaker 5: the security situation, but I asked her spokesperson about the

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Speaker 5: costs associated with all of the travel for those dozens

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Speaker 5: of these ex with the money she's making on that

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Speaker 5: book tour. We are still waiting for a response. We

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Speaker 5: would also be remiss if we didn't mention that California

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Speaker 5: has been grappling with back to back to back budget

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Speaker 5: shortfalls and every penny should be accounted for.

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Speaker 2: You think that never should be made available. Further so,

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Speaker 2: where's the federal government on this right now? And does

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Speaker 2: any of.

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Speaker 3: This have to do with President Trump provoking her security privilege?

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Speaker 5: Sure, and it depends on who you ask about this.

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Speaker 5: Former vice presidents under law typically get six months of

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Speaker 5: federal protection once they're out of office. Before leaving office,

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Speaker 5: President Joe Biden quietly extended Harris's protection to July of

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Speaker 8: I mean, we know that.

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Speaker 2: Also, why are.

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Speaker 3: We paying our state tax money so she can go

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Speaker 3: on a book tour? She should be paying for this.

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Speaker 3: This is just really crazy. I know I'm not working here.

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Speaker 3: Are you working here to give Kamala Harris security? And

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Speaker 3: she feels afraid and stay home, goes to hide in

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Speaker 3: own security. They're wealthy, they're worth like fifteen million dollars.

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Speaker 3: They got a big house in brent Wood.

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Speaker 2: They don't.

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Speaker 3: And he's she's presumably making money with the stupid book.

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Speaker 2: And and no, you're only supposed to get under the law.

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Speaker 3: You get six months. And just because you have a

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Speaker 3: at her job. She was the borders are I mean,

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Speaker 3: she's going to London to sell books and I have

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Speaker 3: to pay for her security. No, I am tired of

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Speaker 3: working for this stuff. Isn't everybody sick of working for

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Speaker 3: this nonsense? You're going to work.

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Speaker 2: So Kamala Harris, dozens of officers, dozens what's going on?

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Speaker 2: The Ia Tolaly didn't have this much protection.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of the Iya Tola, I got a story about

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Speaker 3: his son when we come back. His son is supposedly

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Speaker 3: in line to become the new Supreme leader in Iran,

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Speaker 3: and he's had a lot of medical issues over the years,

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Speaker 3: and we'll focus on one when we come back.

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Speaker 9: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Coming up after Debra's news at four point thirty, we're

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Speaker 3: going to talk with Katie Grimes from the California Globe.

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Speaker 3: Chevron is sending a letter warning Governor Newsom again and

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Speaker 3: the California Air Resources Board and is asking them that

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Speaker 2: We already had two.

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Speaker 3: Refineries closed just in the last few months, and Chevron

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Speaker 3: you rescind these regulations. We'll talk to Katie Grimes about

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Speaker 3: We talked about the Ayahtola Harmoni and he got the

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Speaker 3: hard goodbye. The other day, he and forty of his

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Speaker 3: top leaders, many of them, were attending a meeting and

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Speaker 3: the Israelis had hacked into the actedto Tehran's video security

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Speaker 3: system that keeps track of traffic, right and you know

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Speaker 3: all cities had that for traffic and crime purposes. Well,

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Speaker 3: they hacked in there a long time ago, and the

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Speaker 3: Israeli said, we knew Tehran like we knew Jerusalem, and

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Speaker 3: they were able to follow these people going to work,

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Speaker 3: going to meetings where they plotted their terrorist attacks. And

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Speaker 3: they knew that Saturday, during the middle of the day,

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Speaker 3: and now's the time to drop missiles on them. So

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Speaker 3: the Iotola is no longer with us, and there are

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Speaker 3: well you have forty successors.

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Speaker 2: I guess we're wiped out too.

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Speaker 3: So they're looking to his son and his son we

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Speaker 3: mentioned briefly the other day mo Taba mosh Taba Amani.

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Speaker 3: He's fifty six, but he'd be next in line. He

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Speaker 3: he's a psychotic.

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Speaker 2: He's killed a lot of people. The thing is in.

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Speaker 3: Iran, you're expected as an heir to provide another generation

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Speaker 3: because of impotence. So his women have had trouble conceiving,

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Speaker 2: How are you.

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 4: Thank you?

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Speaker 4: Well, except that we're going to be experiencing eight dollars

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Speaker 3: Yes, hold on second, but let's get that.

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Speaker 2: That's gold Mark Calprin.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, it has had no effect on

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Speaker 3: And there's nothing there's nobody in the Democratic Party, since

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Speaker 3: So have we got to sit and watch and just

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Speaker 3: And we got to hope that all the oil and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, which, yeah, undoubtedly has to. It just makes you

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Speaker 3: All right, Katie, it's good talking with you again. Eighty Grimes,

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Speaker 3: Californiaglobe dot com. I read it every day. First thing

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Speaker 3: Sayed Kashawani, the attorney who's house burned down in the

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Speaker 3: Palisades fire. He's coming on after five o'clock because we

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Speaker 3: continue the celebration of Genice Canonia as the idiot in

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Speaker 3: charge of the LA Department of Order and Power, who

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Speaker 3: didn't fill a reservoir, who had a thousand hydrants broken,

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Speaker 3: who didn't turn off the electrical power to the electrical

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Speaker 3: lines the night of the fire. But boy, more than

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Speaker 3: anything else, it was this one hundred and seventeen million

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Speaker 3: get reservoir she left empty. She's out. I think bass

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Speaker 3: tossed her because she's running for reelection. We'll talk with

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Speaker 3: Sayed Kashani coming up. We were just talking with Katie

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Speaker 3: Grimes from californiaglobe dot com and she mentioned that the

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Speaker 3: political writer Mark Halpern on his podcast interviewed Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 3: and they had an exchange play it. Then you did

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Speaker 3: an interview with Dana Bash on CNAT as part of

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Speaker 3: the book tour, and you said, I may not run

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Speaker 3: because my family, you know, has ambivalents about it. I

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Speaker 3: say all the time, I don't think you're gonna run.

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Speaker 3: I think you may get in and then get out.

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Speaker 3: But I think I think because so many people dislike you,

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Speaker 3: it's just true. Maybe the book will take the edge off.

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Speaker 11: Of that, because because you're gonna get scrutiny for stuff

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Speaker 11: you've never gotten scrutiny before, that's what happens. I just,

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Speaker 11: I just I just think my gut says you're not

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Speaker 11: gonna run in the end.

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Speaker 3: Why doesn't everybody treat him like this? See Halperin works

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Speaker 3: independently now. I believe he's got his own podcast and

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Speaker 3: his own own writing online. So when you don't work

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Speaker 3: for some left wing progressive editor producer, you can tell

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Speaker 3: the truth. It's like, you've never had scrutiny, nobody likes you.

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Speaker 2: It's all true.

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Speaker 3: He's never had scrutiny, not even here in California. By

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Speaker 3: the idiots in the press. That is good, all right,

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Speaker 3: Let me play you this because the idiot, the Gavenusom

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Speaker 3: of the Midwest is the fool Tim Waltz, And you

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Speaker 3: know about all the fraud. One of the big areas

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Speaker 3: of fraud is autism funding. This is Nancy Mace, Congressman

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Speaker 3: from South Carolina. They had a big hearing today and

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Speaker 3: Walts got roasted for hours and hours. Listen to this exchange.

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Speaker 12: How much money was spent on autism in Minnesota in

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Speaker 12: twenty seventeen?

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Speaker 10: Governor, I don't have those numbers in front of the congressos.

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Speaker 8: Did you prepare for this hearing today?

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Speaker 10: Did you do anything? I take Congress seriously, and.

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Speaker 12: You've seen the numbers about autism fraud in Minnesota. So

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Speaker 12: we're going to do some Minnesota math with you today. Okay,

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Speaker 12: are you ready? How much money was spent on twenty

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Speaker 12: seventeen for autism in Minnesota?

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Speaker 8: How much?

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Speaker 10: I don't know. I wasn't the governor. Okay.

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Speaker 12: Did you not just say that you prepared for this

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Speaker 12: hearing today? One million dollars?

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Speaker 8: Okay?

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Speaker 12: A quick Google search or using your AI could tell

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Speaker 12: you one million dollars was spent. How much money was

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Speaker 12: spent on autism in Minnesota in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 10: I don't have a number in front of me.

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Speaker 8: As you donor in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 10: I was, but I'm not the Okay, So.

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Speaker 12: Your excuse before that you didn't know what twenty seventeen

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Speaker 12: ounts and numbers were because you were not governor, And

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Speaker 12: today you can't answer the numbers about twenty twenty four

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Speaker 12: as governor, and you still said you're prepared for this

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Speaker 12: hearing today, it's unbelievable. Three hundred and forty three million

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Speaker 12: dollars was spent in twenty twenty four. What percent increases

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Speaker 12: that from one million to three hundred and forty three million?

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Speaker 8: What percentage increase is that?

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Speaker 10: I'm not here to be your prop Go ahead and

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Speaker 10: tell me.

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Speaker 8: Well, are you governor of Minnesota or not?

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Speaker 10: Yes, I am, I'm not one.

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Speaker 8: I'm governor of South Carolina. You can sure as held

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Speaker 8: bet that I'm going to know the math. The math

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Speaker 8: is thirty.

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Speaker 12: Four th two hundred percent increase, an increase of three

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Speaker 12: hundred and forty three times what it.

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Speaker 8: Was in this time period.

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Speaker 12: Do you know the number of children in Minnesota?

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Speaker 10: I know that Minnesota ranked as a top three state

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Speaker 10: for There.

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Speaker 12: Is the total population in Minnesota five point seven million? Okay,

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Speaker 12: what is the total population of children in Minnesota?

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Speaker 10: I don't have the number in front.

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Speaker 8: Of me, right, are you, governor of Minnesota?

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Speaker 10: I know four hundred thousand work out of health care

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Speaker 10: last week actions you made?

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Speaker 12: Are you governors of Minnesota? I am, and you don't

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Speaker 12: know the number of children.

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Speaker 10: I don't have a specific number. It's five point seven million.

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Speaker 8: That's your total?

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Speaker 10: What is your ASI? What is the age? Your point

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Speaker 10: zero to five zero A nineteen.

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Speaker 12: Approximately one point two million children in Minnesota. What are even,

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Speaker 12: Governor of South Carolina? Our population in South Kunta's five

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Speaker 12: point five million. We have approximately one point one million

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Speaker 12: children under the age of eighteen in my home state

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Speaker 12: of South Carolina. Okay, as governor, I expect you to

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Speaker 12: know this information. Thank god you're not Vice president of

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Speaker 12: the United States. Do you know approximately how many children

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Speaker 12: in Minnesota are autistic or on the spectrum?

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Speaker 10: No? I don't. I don't have that number.

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Speaker 12: Okay, Well, if you take the CDC's roughly one in

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Speaker 12: thirty six kids or on the spectrum, we're talking about

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Speaker 12: approximately thirty three thousand kids in South Carolina's about thirty

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Speaker 12: one thousand or so. What is do you know what

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Speaker 12: this is per child spending wise in the fraud for

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Speaker 12: autistic kids in Minnesota.

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Speaker 10: Again, I'm not here to be your prop.

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Speaker 12: Go ahead and tell me this is it is doing

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Speaker 12: Minnesota math a prop.

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Speaker 8: This is math. We're talking about fraud.

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Speaker 10: Minnesota ranks. Where do to South Carolina rank?

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Speaker 8: We're talking about money?

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Speaker 10: Where do South Carolina children rank?

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Speaker 8: These are my questions for you.

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Speaker 12: Doesn't go the other way around unless we're doing eating

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Speaker 12: on the debate stage, and we're not.

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Speaker 5: If you're asking a questions about being governor.

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Speaker 8: Being govern of Minnesota, which you can't answer. This is

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Speaker 8: basic math.

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Speaker 3: One million dollars they spent in twenty seventeen on autistic

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Speaker 3: kids in twenty twenty four three hundred and forty three million,

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Speaker 3: and you'd have roughly the same proportion of children with autism,

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Speaker 3: an increase of thirty four thy two hundred percent. You

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Speaker 3: don't need to know anything else. You just need that

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Speaker 3: statistic to give you an idea of the overwhelming amount

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Speaker 3: of fraud and money stolen from the Minnesota taxpayers. With

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Speaker 3: Tim Watts sitting right there and nodding along as they

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Speaker 3: hauled off the money. Wow, one million to three hundred

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Speaker 3: and forty three million, because a lot of those Somali

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Speaker 3: scam artists set up autism nonprofit.

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Speaker 2: Agencies. That's how that happened.

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Speaker 3: We come back, say Ed Kashani and his he's an

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Speaker 3: attorney house burned down in the Palisades and he's been

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Speaker 3: tracking Janice Cannas over the last year. She's finally gone

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Speaker 3: as the head of the LA Department of Order and Power.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about it. The celebration continues. Debra Mark live

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