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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio and welcome back to Coast to Coast George, and

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Speaker 1: are back with you. Hillary gam with us or book billions.

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Speaker 1: Lost Year is also the co founder of the American

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Speaker 1: Workers Coalition. We'll talk about that in a moment. Explain

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Speaker 1: what that is all about. So, Hillary, in terms of

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Speaker 1: these tech companies, in your opinion, at what point do

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Speaker 1: they have the right to or the need to school

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Speaker 1: what is put on social networking platforms. Good question. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that social platforms now have become a mass communicator.

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Speaker 1: And as your earlier guests indicated, President Trump's got a

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Speaker 1: lot of sway on Twitter, right, He's, oh yeah, probably,

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Speaker 1: I would think, I mean, with eighty millions, he's probably

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest you know Twitter groups, you know

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Speaker 1: Twitter individuals out there in terms of the number of followers.

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Speaker 1: And so it's very hard for me to understand how individuals,

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Speaker 1: you know, exercising free speech could be stamped out by companies,

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Speaker 1: you know, social media companies. I just I don't see

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Speaker 1: how they should be policing you know, free speech on

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Speaker 1: the Internet as long as they're not profane and as

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Speaker 1: you said child porn and stuff like that. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: inciting violence or riot. Yeah right, Yeah, they're not saying

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Speaker 1: go out and kill people and do this. If they are,

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Speaker 1: yank them right. But I'll give you an example. One

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Speaker 1: very good example happened today. I heard one of the

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Speaker 1: CEOs of one of the largest social net bringing platforms

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Speaker 1: that we have in the United States talk about how

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Speaker 1: they shut down the president of Brazil because he was

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Speaker 1: saying that there were studies, medical studies that showed that

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Speaker 1: hydroxy florican was effective in early tree. Oh yeah, they're

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Speaker 1: yanking that off all all over the place. But it

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Speaker 1: was very interesting, was that and his and his justification

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Speaker 1: was they were saying that and that was somehow not true.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I live in Connecticut, and this week

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Speaker 1: in Connecticut, the Yale head epidemiologists came out with a study, like,

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Speaker 1: you know, two clinical trials that said exactly the same thing.

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Speaker 1: So there's a situation where you know, there might be

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Speaker 1: different points of view, and I think science is based

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Speaker 1: on that, right, that's what exactly very different points But

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Speaker 1: you put something on about COVID nineteen that they don't like,

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Speaker 1: they take it off, they wipe it off, instantly it's gone.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like they've got twenty five people simply just

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Speaker 1: reading people's posts and they see COVID nineteen pop up,

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Speaker 1: they take it off. Yeah, and did you hear I'm

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Speaker 1: sure you did that. You heard there were the physicians

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Speaker 1: who were in like they had their er practice and

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Speaker 1: they put something up and opinion and they were shut

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Speaker 1: down immediately as soon it was highlighted. And that's the

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Speaker 1: kind of thing that really has to stop. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's too much. That's blatant. Yeah, it really is. It's

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Speaker 1: too much, right, it's just not American. That's blatant. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about COVID nineteen. Then we'll

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Speaker 1: get into your America and a worker's coalition, how you

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Speaker 1: form that. But COVID nineteen has cost US forty million

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Speaker 1: jobs already. You're an expert on jobs. Are we going

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Speaker 1: to get them back? Well, let me tell you, I

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Speaker 1: certainly hope. So, so let's remember if we can that

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Speaker 1: I have always been this huge proponent of remote workforce,

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Speaker 1: as a vibrant domestic remote workforce. And why is that?

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Speaker 1: That's because we have a huge country full of awesome, educated, intelligent,

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Speaker 1: willing people who want to work, and they have computers,

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Speaker 1: and they speak English. They weren't raised in the United States.

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Speaker 1: They understand our laws and our processes. They understand how

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Speaker 1: businesses run, They understand how people communicate and how commerce

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Speaker 1: is conducted in the United States. So they should be

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Speaker 1: our first line of workers in every possible instance where

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Speaker 1: we can hire them. And so what the pandemic has

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Speaker 1: done from a good perspective is it's shown these corporations

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Speaker 1: and the executives of these corporations that they can, in

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Speaker 1: fact have a viable remote workforce. They can give people

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Speaker 1: the flexibility to be caregivers of either elderly parents or

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Speaker 1: young children, or individuals with disabilities. Or they can give

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Speaker 1: people part time work or full time work and allow

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Speaker 1: them the flexibility to work from home and from the office.

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Speaker 1: So those are the good things that came out of

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Speaker 1: the pandemic, this understanding that we can successfully engage American

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Speaker 1: citizens to work remotely and be contributing members of society.

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Speaker 1: What scares me, however, though, is over the past twenty years,

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Speaker 1: technology has enabled the outsourcing creates which has read twenty

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Speaker 1: million jobs from the US economy, and that's because of

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Speaker 1: the insatiable desire for cheap foreign labor to basically go

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Speaker 1: unabated through offshoring and outsourcing rather than hiring Americans. And

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Speaker 1: so what I fear and what I'm concerned about is

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Speaker 1: that with this remote you know, kind of epiphany, that

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Speaker 1: we ensure that President Trump and his administration recognize that

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Speaker 1: we have to stem outsourcing and offshoring. We have to

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Speaker 1: create some data must day laws. We need to bring

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Speaker 1: our data home, we need to bring our jobs home,

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Speaker 1: and the data that's here in the US needs to

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Speaker 1: stay in the US. And President Trump and his administration

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Speaker 1: are very keen on fair trade. Well, India and both

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Speaker 1: have laws that keep their data in their countries. So

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Speaker 1: does the EU and so does Australia. Now it benefits

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Speaker 1: global big tech corporations to allow data to flow freely,

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Speaker 1: to let your personal data, your health data, your financial data,

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Speaker 1: and their company data to flow all over the world,

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Speaker 1: so that they can hire cheap labor in the Philippines

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Speaker 1: to take customer service calls, and they can hire cheap

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Speaker 1: labor in India to do coding that potentially isn't the

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Speaker 1: highest quality. And so with this new remote workforce awakening

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Speaker 1: in the US, we need to keep o keep our

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Speaker 1: jobs domestic and then we need to bring our jobs home.

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Speaker 1: Twenty million jobs outside the US due to outsourcing and offshoring.

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Speaker 1: Even if you just brought a fraction of those baths

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Speaker 1: and gave them to people work living so they could

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Speaker 1: work in the Midwest, you know, not necessarily need cities,

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Speaker 1: we would see the American economy come back. We're still

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Speaker 1: twenty million short though, Hillary, we are. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: if we give Americans jobs, then Americans will grow our economy.

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Speaker 1: The reason that the medal class is being hollowed out

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Speaker 1: is because we have educated American citizens who are losing

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Speaker 1: their jobs, and then they have an inability to contribute

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Speaker 1: to society and be consumers and send their kids to

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Speaker 1: college and go on vacation and buy new cars and

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Speaker 1: buy a home. You know, one of the things I

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Speaker 1: hope you get to talk to about is, you know,

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Speaker 1: this American Workers Coalition. But one of the candidates, Lauren Whitzky,

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Speaker 1: who's running for Senate in the state of Delaware, is

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Speaker 1: a lovely young woman, and she very articulately explains that

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Speaker 1: her generation of Americans, the millennials, they can't afford housing,

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Speaker 1: they don't get married, and they don't have kids, and

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Speaker 1: that's the hollowing out of these educated Americans who go

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Speaker 1: to college and then are denied access an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: our job that are crippling our economy and crippling our democracy.

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Speaker 1: And that's what we need to reverse. That's the focus.

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