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Speaker 1: the Trump administration. They've got something that's happened every day

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Speaker 1: She runs the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles down

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Speaker 1: And her museum got attacked by those disgusting thug criminals

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Speaker 1: that Karen Bass allows to run a muck for three

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Speaker 1: she hasn't done enough to the city. Now she's letting

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Speaker 1: I mean they the vandalism at the Italian American Museum

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Speaker 1: except they misspelled trump. Did you see this. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to get the accurate misspelling. They can't even spell

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Speaker 1: Here it is? Here it is. They spelled it t

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Speaker 1: and that's what they are. They're rioters, They're vandals, they're criminals.

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Speaker 1: They're exactly the element that the Trump administration is trying

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Speaker 1: this is cool. We can't judge this. You know, they're

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Speaker 1: They have no rights. These people are here legally, they

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Speaker 1: also directing the Justice Department to work with Homeland Security

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Speaker 1: And so now that's going to be a rescheduled and

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Speaker 1: with that an illegal alien And these aren't these aren't

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Speaker 1: All right, so we just told you about how Pam Bondi,

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Speaker 1: of the Italian American Museum in Los Angeles, Mariana Gato,

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Speaker 1: I cannot believe, coming off the fire disaster, that Karen

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I mean, the city is completely ungovernable, out

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Speaker 1: damage done to Marianna's museum, along with the photograph of

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Speaker 1: the thing I mentioned before, the photograph of the misspelling

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Speaker 1: This is actually a photograph of City Hall had gotten

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Speaker 1: they're gang members. They're punks, that's what they are. That's

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Speaker 1: what's running in the streets protesting. So enough of the propaganda.

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Speaker 1: Then we turned to Rick Caruso. Now we're in an

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Speaker 1: interesting situation because Karen Bass's government has completely failed and

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Speaker 1: she brought on Steve Soberoff, who's another civic leader, to

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Speaker 1: And yesterday we told you that there's a recording of

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Speaker 1: It's going pretty okay. I mean, I'm just astonished that

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Speaker 4: These are kind of back to back occurrences of you know,

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Speaker 4: Well, okay, So we have raised millions of dollars over

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Speaker 4: You know, these were protests. Some people chose to do

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Speaker 4: things that, in my opinion, blemish the cause. You know,

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Speaker 4: when you write, when you do space, when you vandalize

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Speaker 4: historic buildings, mom and pop businesses, you know.

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Speaker 2: You're taking away from the community.

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Speaker 4: You you know, you're kind of you know, you're blemishing

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Speaker 4: the cause. The separate issue from what we experience on

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Speaker 4: a daily basis where you know, there's a.

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Speaker 2: Naked woman, you know, on the street.

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Speaker 1: At nine am.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I was raised. I consider myself kind

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Speaker 4: of the old school progressive, like the early nineteen hundreds

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Speaker 4: progressive that believes in things like, you know, we want

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Speaker 4: to eliminate child labor, let's create a weekend, an eight

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Speaker 4: hour day, that sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: I feel that.

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Speaker 4: You know, those progressives would feel, you know, very betrayed

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Speaker 4: by what.

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Speaker 2: We have said is progressive.

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Speaker 4: Letting people wander the streets who cannot take care of themselves,

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Speaker 4: that is not progressive, and I see that every day

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Speaker 4: in our city.

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Speaker 1: You know, yes, all right, Well, Marianna, thank you for

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Speaker 1: coming on. I'm sorry you have to go through this,

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Speaker 1: and I'm trying to, you know, shake the city as

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Speaker 1: hard as we can here at KFI to get the

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Speaker 1: government to respond and change their policies. Because this stuff

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Speaker 1: didn't exist for most of our lives. It does not

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Speaker 1: have to exist for the rest of our life. They

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Speaker 1: just have to do their jobs in government.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and you know, I want to say, you know,

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Speaker 4: we support freedom of expression. The building up the museum

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Speaker 4: is located in from its very early days, you know,

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Speaker 4: when it was constructed in nineteen oh eight, was a

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Speaker 4: center for free speech and freedom and expression.

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Speaker 2: That's some of the history that we preserve here. We

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Speaker 2: welcome that, but you know, we.

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Speaker 4: Anticipate that these protests and demonstrations are not.

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Speaker 2: Going anywhere in you know, the immediate future.

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Speaker 4: And all we ask is please be respectful. You know,

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Speaker 4: if demonstrate, you know, let your voice be heard, but

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Speaker 4: don't just say. You know, the institutions that are trying

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Speaker 4: to uplist the community that provides so much in terms

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Speaker 4: of services.

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Speaker 2: You know, on any.

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Speaker 4: Given day you'll see hundreds of school kids here and

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Speaker 4: you know, there's got to be a way to make

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Speaker 4: this work for everyone.

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Speaker 1: All right, Marianna, I've got to do the news. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for coming on.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having us.

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Speaker 1: Marianna got a director of the museum Italian American Museum

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Speaker 1: of LA.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 3: six forty.

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Speaker 1: Let's see coming up at two o'clock. Yesterday, we told

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Speaker 1: you in detail that the developer Steve Soberoff, who Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass picked to lead the recovery effort at least for

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Speaker 1: a few months, he was recorded on a private zoom

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Speaker 1: call telling rich Hollywood agents that they should hold on

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Speaker 1: to their properties for at least a year and it'll

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Speaker 1: triple in value at least compared to the low ball

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Speaker 1: offers they would get today. And he also told them

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Speaker 1: don't drink the water, basically, don't trust the DWP, and

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Speaker 1: say he gave them all kinds of private advice because

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Speaker 1: they were wealthy and Hollywood connected, and the rest of

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Speaker 1: the public in Palisades and Outadena haven't gotten any financial

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Speaker 1: recommendations from Steve sober Off for any warnings about the

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Speaker 1: water or anything else. We're going to talk to the

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Speaker 1: reporter who broke the story for the Washington Free Beacon

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Speaker 1: Susanna Luthy, she got her hands on the recording of

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Speaker 1: the meeting, and I just want to follow up for

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Speaker 1: a second. We just had Mariana Gato on from the

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Speaker 1: Italian American Museum of Los Angeles, which is a great museum.

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Speaker 1: My wife's been a part of the whole Italian American

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Speaker 1: experience out here, all the different organizations. We've gone to

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Speaker 1: that museum a number of times. They really do put

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Speaker 1: on great exhibits and shows, and you know, it's so

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Speaker 1: frustrating because Marianna is it's been her baby for twenty years,

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Speaker 1: and she works so hard trying to put together a

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Speaker 1: nice museum, educating a lot of kids, entertaining adults. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of cool stuff that you learn about, and

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Speaker 1: then it gets all undone by a bunch of criminal,

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Speaker 1: thugs and goons. Because Karen Bass doesn't have respect for

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Speaker 1: the people who put the museums together in this city.

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Speaker 1: But she's got all the love and respect for the

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Speaker 1: goons and thugs who are violent and who vandalize things

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Speaker 1: like the Italian Museum. They're vandals, the criminals, of course,

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Speaker 1: they're criminals. They're here illegally or they're supporting people who

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Speaker 1: came here illegally, and they're waving the flags of foreign country.

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Speaker 1: There is no love for America. There's no love for

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Here. They ruin Los Angeles. They destroy the

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Speaker 1: good things in Los Angeles, these people in the streets.

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Speaker 1: And then I'm reading here's another story today, several hundred protesters,

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Speaker 1: fourth day in a row, protesting near Los Angeles City Hall.

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Speaker 1: These people have no permits. Bass had the LAPD stand

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Speaker 1: down the other night. Now there's a traffic advisory that

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Speaker 1: it's been out this afternoon, Spring Street, First Street, Broadway.

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Speaker 1: I don't know this minute what's going on there, but

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Speaker 1: it has gone on for hours, same old thing, four

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Speaker 1: days in a row. And she's utterly clueless, utterly impotent,

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Speaker 1: takes no action, and she lets the bad people enjoy

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Speaker 1: themselves and the good people have to run and hide

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Speaker 1: and hope that their possessions and their creations don't get

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Speaker 1: vandalized or burned down. It's just wrong. It's just morally wrong,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know what it's good. I cannot believe

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Speaker 1: how dense Karen Bass is. I don't understand why she

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Speaker 1: hates this place so much. Anybody loved La in southern

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Speaker 1: California would boot these owns out of here, would call

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Speaker 1: up ice and have these people deported. That's what you do.

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Speaker 1: Don't let them vandalize, don't let them commit violent acts

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Speaker 1: and terrorize people. Don't let them block up traffic so

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Speaker 1: nobody can drive for hours and hours and live their life.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what is wrong with her? What is wrong

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Speaker 1: with everybody running this city? When does it stop?

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Speaker 3: God?

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Speaker 1: All right, we come back more of this. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you're wealthy and you work full on the cool

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Speaker 1: talent agencies, you get to see Steve sober Off on

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Speaker 1: a private Zoom call to tell you to give you

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Speaker 1: a financial advice and advice on selling your properties, and

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Speaker 1: advice on whether you should drink the water, whether you

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Speaker 1: should watch your babies in the in the bath water

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Speaker 1: that the DWP provides. But if you're a regular person,

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Speaker 1: you don't get access to that call. You get a

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Speaker 1: lot of bland cliches and platitudes and nonsense on your

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Speaker 1: Zoom meetings. We'll talk about that with the with Susannah

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Speaker 1: Luthy and she works for the Washington Free Beacon and

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Speaker 1: she broke that story. That's all next. Deborah Mark live

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Speaker 1: in the CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been

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Speaker 1: listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always

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Speaker 1: hear the show live on KFI Am six forty from

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