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Speaker 2: jam packed with a lot of exciting stuff, and we're

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Speaker 2: going to start with Oh, it was almost a year ago,

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Speaker 2: I think it was April second when Trump declared Liberation

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Speaker 2: Day because he was slapping the whole world with all

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Speaker 2: kinds of tariffs, and it froze the stock market. Actually,

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Speaker 2: the stock market took a big dump, freaked everybody out.

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Speaker 2: Turned out almost a year later that it really hasn't

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Speaker 2: had that much of an effect on prices. It did

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Speaker 2: allow the government to collect a couple hundred billion dollars

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Speaker 2: and now they might have to give the money back

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Speaker 2: because the Supreme Court and a six to three vote,

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Speaker 2: said Trump had no right under the law he invoked

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Speaker 2: to raise all those tariffs that he did. Now, a

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Speaker 2: lot has changed since the instituted the tariffs. There are

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Speaker 2: still it was a significant setback to this theory that

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Speaker 2: the president can invoke emergency powers to enforce tariffs on

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Speaker 2: anybody he wants. Now, there are ways around it, and

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Speaker 2: Trump is already reinvoked tariffs. We'll explain all this, but

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Speaker 2: first thing, just to get the nuts and bolts of

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Speaker 2: the decision so you understand it is a man. We

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Speaker 2: have on to explain things that most people don't understand.

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Speaker 2: Royal Oaks, ABC News Legal analyst, and we're going to

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Speaker 2: find out what the Supreme Court decision was about.

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Speaker 1: Royal. How are you on to this?

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Speaker 3: I mean, and it's not a huge shock. Not a

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Speaker 3: shock in the sense that months ago the Supreme Court

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Speaker 3: their questions and the bench that we're not really buying

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Speaker 3: Trump's approach. What Donald Trump did was he picked up

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Speaker 3: a law about economic emergency. That said, Okay, if there's

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Speaker 3: an emergency, then the president may take some steps to

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Speaker 3: help our economic situation. But the law never said anything

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Speaker 3: about tariffs, and the constitution says only Congress may approve tariffs.

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Speaker 3: And so by six to three vote, including a couple

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Speaker 3: of appointees by Donald Trump, the court struck it down

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Speaker 3: and said, sorry, mister President, but you can't do it

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Speaker 3: now as you suggest. John. There are several other tariff

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Speaker 3: laws on the books that he can turn to, but

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Speaker 3: there are restrictions, limitations, they got to jump through some

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Speaker 3: extra hoops. Congress can take it away from him after

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Speaker 3: a while. So bottom line is he's got some options,

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Speaker 3: but the option he picked months ago is not working

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Speaker 3: for him. Right.

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Speaker 2: That option was dramatic and sweeping. He could raise the

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Speaker 2: tariffs as high as he wants, on as many countries

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Speaker 2: as he wants. These other laws, like I heard one today,

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Speaker 2: if he laid tariffs on countries with one of these

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Speaker 2: it's not going to be an open ended penalty. And

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Speaker 2: it gets it gets really really complicated. But the short

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Speaker 2: thing is is he it clearly does not give the

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Speaker 2: was pretty clear. The Justices went on for one hundred

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Speaker 3: That's exactly right. And you know it was tempting because

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Speaker 3: the Economic Emergency law, you can just do it as

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Speaker 3: Now these other laws he's talking about, he doesn't need

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Speaker 3: they're threatening our national security. As you say, one of

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Speaker 3: you know, you've got to go through commissions and prove

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Speaker 3: from the press conference, John, I mean he just went ballistic.

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Speaker 3: I mean, attacking the Justice is personally saying I think

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Speaker 3: let's go with this, this big stat of the emergency statute.

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Speaker 3: I imagine if he's in the golf force him tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Actually, the Wall Street Journal has a headline the moment

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Speaker 2: Trump found out the Supreme Court killed his tariffs. You

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Speaker 2: want to bring You want to be the guy who

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Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely not. No, It's it's going to be a

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Speaker 3: very uncomfortable situation. But you know, he does have options.

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Speaker 3: But a lot of people have options to get their

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Speaker 3: of the car. You got to pay a check to Washington,

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Speaker 3: which people have been doing ever since Liberation Day. Now

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Speaker 3: they've got to hand out. They're going to want that

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Speaker 3: money back. It's going to take years and years to

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Speaker 3: sort that out in the courts. It's weird, John that

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Speaker 3: the court didn't talk about whether they're ruling today is

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Speaker 3: retroactive that would permit refunds. But probably even though they

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Speaker 3: There's one hundred and seventy billions.

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Speaker 2: There's other courts that have to figure that out whether

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's going to be like tap dancing and

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Speaker 3: even if Trump does go with these other statutes, that's

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Speaker 3: you know, it's a national security is affected and they

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Speaker 3: were unfair. Anybody can follow a lawsuit, not anybody, but

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Speaker 3: Slawsits will be filed saying no, Donald Trump did not

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Speaker 3: demonstrate that there's a national security problem. So he isn't

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Speaker 3: it's just a huge bollock stuff.

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Speaker 2: Mass Trump always with the rhetoric he used, made it

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Speaker 2: that China was going to pay the tariff, Europe was

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Speaker 2: The tariffs were paid the importers, the companies that import

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Speaker 3: That's exactly right, And I think what he was probably

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Speaker 3: i'll buy from Afghanistan because you know it's going to

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Speaker 3: Missouri or Alabama. So, you know, everybody was unhappy about

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Speaker 2: Right, But China is not getting a refund check. I

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Speaker 2: guess these importers are going to apply for a refund check,

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Speaker 2: I never understood how all this worked. I'm not sure

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Speaker 3: Oh I'm yeah, no, I know you're right there. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you know, if General Electric biz a million light bulbs

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Speaker 3: But theoretically, yeah, you get your money back.

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Speaker 2: Because I know of people who apparently ordered products from

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, exactly right, that's how it works. And you know,

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Speaker 3: the whole anger aspect of it. I mean, so many

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Speaker 3: So it's actually more of a centrist court when you

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Speaker 3: tamp down Donald Trump's anger. I mean, he's furious with

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Speaker 2: And vote for He did use it as leverage though,

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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, And I think you know a lot of

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Speaker 3: people the initial thing was, oh, he's going to doom

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Speaker 3: people said, oh a taco Trump always chickens out. But

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Speaker 3: the fact is is, you say, he cut a lot

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Speaker 3: of great deals because the threat of these charits are

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Speaker 3: it didn't doom us. And I mean, as you can

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Speaker 3: see today, the stock market is doing fine. You know,

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Speaker 3: no tariffs it doesn't mean but you know, when you

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Speaker 3: think about it, one hundred and seventy billion dollars has

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Speaker 3: to be kicked back. That's like a drop of ink

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Speaker 3: national economy. So either way, it's not going to bring

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Speaker 3: us down. But Donald Trump is not going to have

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Speaker 3: a good Friday evening.

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Speaker 2: All right, very good, Royal Oaks, ABC News Legal analyst,

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Speaker 2: Thanks for coming.

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Speaker 3: On, you bet, thanks.

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Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, Trump went, he was

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Speaker 2: handed a piece of paper. I'm going to read you

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Speaker 2: a piece of this story of the Wall Street Journal

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Speaker 2: while he was having a meeting with a group of governors,

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Speaker 2: and he got the news that the Supreme Court has

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Speaker 2: then he came back out later and he had all

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Speaker 2: kinds of terrible things to say about the Supreme Court justices.

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Speaker 2: And we're going to play you a few lips, because

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Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh oh, were we right or were we right? Yesterday?

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Speaker 2: We'll do this after Demonstreet thirty news. We told you

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Speaker 2: that Ian Chaudri, who is on leave now because he

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Speaker 2: got into some fight with his fiancee and daughter and

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Speaker 2: the police got called.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't been charged, but.

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Speaker 2: I Ray spotted this in the story yesterday, that his fiance,

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Speaker 2: the missus wannabe Chaudri, had gotten a job working with

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Speaker 2: a consulting firm that had a twenty four million dollar

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Speaker 2: and all they smells this is no good.

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Speaker 1: Guess what.

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Speaker 2: Not only is SCHAUDERI being investigated for this fight with

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Speaker 2: the fiance and the daughter, he's being investigated over his

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Speaker 2: which he's running conflict of interest. Told you there was something,

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Speaker 2: there was something. That's why my antenna was vibrating yesterday.

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Speaker 2: It was and you saw it.

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Speaker 1: I did. It was vibrating, and it was correct.

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Speaker 2: Making noises. Yes, So we'll talk about this in detail

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Speaker 2: after three point thirty. Now, Royal Ux was just on

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Speaker 2: because the Supreme Court voted six to three and said

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Speaker 2: Trump had no right to raise those tariffs last April.

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Speaker 2: The president can raise tariffs under certain sections of the law,

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Speaker 2: but not this one. This was an emergency law to

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Speaker 2: govern emergencies. It was passed back in nineteen seventy seven,

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Speaker 2: and it never had the word tariff in it. There

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Speaker 2: in the world. And the Justices explain this in one

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Speaker 2: The way it worked with him is the the He's

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Speaker 1: It's a loss. Then it was a loss. It was

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Speaker 2: And he told the governors that I may look calm,

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Speaker 2: And then he cut the meeting short so he could

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Speaker 1: Let's let's start with the one Royal.

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Speaker 2: Mentioned about the court justices families, Justice Istate and Barrett.

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Speaker 2: Are you surprised in particular by their decision today and

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Speaker 2: do you regret nominating them?

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Speaker 5: I don't want to say whether or not I regret.

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Speaker 5: I think their decision was terrible. I think it's an

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Speaker 5: two of them, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Uh, and the two Trump justices who turned against them

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Speaker 2: And let's go to cut six. Trump was upset over

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Speaker 5: Like six, they really are at a very important point.

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Speaker 5: I've been waiting for this decision so long. They could

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Speaker 5: have made this decision a long time ago. Not complex,

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Speaker 5: they're wrong on it's a ridiculous decision, but they should

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Speaker 5: have released this a long time ago. We waited my

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Speaker 1: That did business with us.

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Speaker 5: Our people were stupid, and I blamed presidents for it

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Speaker 5: because they're ultimately the leader. We are being ripped off by.

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Speaker 5: Almost every single country in the world had massive, some

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Speaker 5: I have a great relationship with presidency, but he respects

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Speaker 1: Now, now what we've done.

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Speaker 5: I charged China twenty percent tariff as a penalty for

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Speaker 5: that is a strong border. We have a strong border now.

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Speaker 2: And so he used tariffs as a weapon in all

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Speaker 2: Court said, you can't do that, at least not under

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Speaker 1: He took a.

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Speaker 2: He took a break to tell a CNN reporter that

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Speaker 1: Listen to this. I'm not I don't.

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Speaker 5: I don't talk to CNN, if State News, I.

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Speaker 3: Just love that stuff.

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Speaker 2: And then let's see a Fox reporter. He'll talk to

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Speaker 2: a Fox reporter. And Peter Deucy asked if Trump has

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Speaker 2: to refund the one hundred and seventy five billion dollars

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Speaker 2: the tariff brought in, So that's liberation.

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Speaker 5: Hey, there's about one hundred and seventy five billion dollars

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Speaker 4: Do you have to refund one hundred and seventy five billion?

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Peter, very fair question. They take months and

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Speaker 5: sentence in there saying that keep the money or don't

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Speaker 5: litigated for the next two years. So they writed this terrible,

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Speaker 5: about that. Your question is very basic, I was the

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Speaker 5: first question I asked. Also to make you feel good,

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Speaker 5: he said, what about all the money that we've taken in, sir?

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Speaker 5: They don't discuss that? How crazy is that?

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Speaker 3: All? Right? Now?

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Speaker 2: When we come back, Yes, the reason my antenna was

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Speaker 2: vibrating yesterday I knew there was something tawdry up with

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Speaker 2: Ian Shaudry, the head of high Speed Rail, and his fiance.

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Speaker 2: Not only violence, but there's some kind of conflict of

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Speaker 1: Five twenty and five point fifty today. Yeah, yeah, I know,

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Speaker 5: It's okay, it's only the first week, so I having

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Speaker 5: a break, no no excuses.

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Speaker 1: Well, he's been doing pretty well this week.

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Speaker 2: I think I just go home. YouTube can do the

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Speaker 2: All right, so we were discussing quite a bit yesterday.

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Speaker 2: A guy you probably are not real aware of, but

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Speaker 2: Ian Shoudri is the latest stooge who took over high

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Speaker 2: only time I've noticed him is like, you know, a

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Speaker 2: insisting that really, really, you know, high speed rail. It's

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: They got they got some like terminal station that they're

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Speaker 2: they're finishing up in. Where was it wasco Yeah, thirty

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Speaker 2: And if you were going to build a train, you

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Speaker 2: understand anything about this except that it's all by design

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Speaker 2: a big racket to steal and spend your money. Seventeen billion,

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Speaker 2: February fourth this happened, which is fascinating because that was

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Speaker 2: whatever was happening spilled out into the front lawn. Neighbor

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Speaker 2: Chaudri and his fiance ended up in cuffs taking off

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Speaker 2: Now, this fiance, Leude Mila Staristik Storostiuk.

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Speaker 1: You think I'd know this.

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Speaker 2: It's Ukrainian, It's right next door to the Polish people,

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Speaker 2: lude Mila Storostiuk. Well Ray noticed yesterday in one of

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Speaker 2: This is how it's done. This is why it was suspicious,

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Speaker 2: because this is the scourge that that infects government everywhere,

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Speaker 2: all the nonprofits that are sucking out the homeless money,

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Speaker 1: Anyone told about his rest before?

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Speaker 6: No one was And so he's on a leave of

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Speaker 6: And we continue that progress that we marked the last

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Speaker 6: again that independent investigations underway by the High Speed Rail Authority,

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Speaker 5: Is that investigation involving in your conflict with the interest

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Speaker 6: She works for the board? Is the board is is

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Speaker 2: that that that the fiancee was working for a company

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Speaker 2: with a contract with high Speed Rail and you're hearing

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Speaker 2: in the middle of it.

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Speaker 1: What was that phrase? You labyrinth of friction, labyrinth of friction, the.

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Speaker 6: Rail and moving on the other side of all the

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Speaker 6: labyrinths of the friction and regulatory frustration.

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Speaker 1: The labyrinth of the friction.

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Speaker 2: I am sure that nobody in the history of planet

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Speaker 2: Earth has ever uttered that phrase. The labyrinth of the

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Speaker 2: friction sounds like a like a spy novel, right, should

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Speaker 2: be like a James Bond. I don't know what it

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Speaker 2: sounds like. The labyrinth of the friction in theaters near

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Speaker 2: you on Friday. Actually, Zavalla the only reporter that covers

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Speaker 2: Sacramento for k c R Channel three. She looked up

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Speaker 2: LinkedIn and this fiance Ludwilde started working for KPMG last month,

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Speaker 2: and she also found out that High Speed Rail, says

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Speaker 2: Shaudri is usually paid.

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Speaker 1: Time off for the leave.

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Speaker 2: His salary half a million a year, So he's getting

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Speaker 2: paid for being kicked out of his job temporarily because

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Speaker 2: he was in a fight with his family and they're

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Speaker 2: investigating his fiance who's on the payroll once removed.

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Speaker 1: This is what corruption is. This is what corruption is.

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Speaker 2: They're not saying how long the leave will last. Hey,

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Speaker 2: but you have this in your contract, and if you

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Speaker 2: get involved in a violent family fight and the police

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Speaker 2: come and you get thrown in jail, that you could

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Speaker 2: take time off work paid.

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Speaker 1: I didn't see it in my contract.

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Speaker 2: I didn't see that in mind either. Is this just

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Speaker 2: a perk that high speed rail employees get. He's one

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Speaker 2: of the highest paid employees in the state. I mean

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Speaker 2: more than I think five hundred and sixty thousand a year.

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Speaker 2: That's one hundred and sixty thousand. No, wait a second,

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Speaker 2: I believe that's three hundred and sixty thousand more than Newsom.

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Speaker 2: Newsom is in the low two two hundreds. The President

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Speaker 2: of the United States gets four hundred thousand. But and

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Speaker 2: by the way, Trump has laid just as much track

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Speaker 2: as Ian Schaudry has. Okay, but he gets five hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixty thousand dollars a year for not laying any track,

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Speaker 2: and he gets paid time off after getting into some

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Speaker 2: kind of rough up with the fiance and the daughter.

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Speaker 1: And nobody told Newsom.

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Speaker 2: Nobody told Newsom since February the fourth that his high

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Speaker 2: speed Rail CEO had been arrested and his wife had

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Speaker 2: been arrested, and his wife had a contract with KPMG,

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Speaker 2: which had a deal with high speed rail.

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Speaker 1: Newsom didn't know any of this. He was standing with

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Speaker 1: the guy. Choudry didn't call him the next day.

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Speaker 2: How were they able to keep this a secret? And

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Speaker 2: how did CHAUDRII know it would be kept a secret

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Speaker 2: because there's two weeks before it popped out A new.

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Speaker 1: Some going I know nothing, I know nothing.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI.

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Speaker 2: Six, coming up after four o'clock. This is too good

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Speaker 2: to be true. I didn't believe it. But on the

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles City buses they have been running a video

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Speaker 2: and the video is a cartoon asking people not to

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Speaker 2: poop on the bus.

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Speaker 1: I'm not making this up.

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Speaker 2: People have been pooping on the bus so much that

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Speaker 2: instead of getting it stopped, the Los Angeles Department of

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Speaker 2: Transportation put up public service videos on the TV. Monitors

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Speaker 2: Jamie Page from the California Post broke this story. Everybody

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Speaker 2: else is piled on. We're going to talk to you

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Speaker 2: about it coming up. It's h it's real. We've seen it.

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Speaker 2: We've seen the video. It's all been pulled off the internet.

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Speaker 2: This thing was running on YouTube and on the lad

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Speaker 2: Ot site. Unbelievable. You have Well, I'll wait, I'll get started.

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Speaker 2: I would stop.

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Speaker 1: I want to get this in.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Trump has stuffed Gavin Newsom.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Newsom was responsible for h people dying in Florida when

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Speaker 2: a truck driver made an illegal U turn on the

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Speaker 2: Florida Turnpike and three people were killed. And why is

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Speaker 2: it Newsom's fault? Because Newsom was allowing people who can't

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Speaker 2: speak or read or write English to be truck drivers.

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Speaker 2: This guy was assessed and he could only provide two

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Speaker 2: of twelve correct responses to verbal questions and only one

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Speaker 2: of four highway traffic signs. So when it came to English,

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Speaker 2: the guy was illiterate. He didn't know what the traffic

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Speaker 2: signs meant meant, he couldn't respond correctly to ten out

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Speaker 2: of twelve verbal questions. California, under Gavin Newsom's authority, issued

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Speaker 2: the commercial license anyway, that was Newsom's rules. Now that

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Speaker 2: violated federal law. And had they obeyed federal law, the

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Speaker 2: driver never would have been behind the wheel and those

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Speaker 2: three people would not have died in this horrible crash.

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Speaker 2: Trump found out about it and signed an executive order

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Speaker 2: that pulled these truckers from the road. Newsom wouldn't go

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Speaker 2: along with it. He refused to comply with the requirement.

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Speaker 2: And the requirement is you have to be tested for

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Speaker 2: English language proficiency.

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Speaker 1: It's called the LP.

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Speaker 2: And Newsom refused to test the truck drivers. He wanted

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Speaker 2: to give them licenses anyway. So Trump pulled forty million

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Speaker 2: dollars in funding from the state. And you know what

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Speaker 2: happened today, Newsom caved in. He's reversed his decision, and

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Speaker 2: now truck drivers have to pass an English English Language

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Speaker 2: proficiency test. You imagine what an arrogant bastard. He's an arrogant,

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Speaker 2: murderous bastard. What state outside of California would let guys

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Speaker 2: who can't speak English, can't read English, can't write English,

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Speaker 2: drive these gigantic tractor trailers. They had no knowledge of

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Speaker 2: American law, American traffic law, loocause they couldn't read it.

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Speaker 2: They couldn't even read the signs, they couldn't even understand

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Speaker 2: the pictures. And knew someone's protecting these people and giving

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Speaker 2: them licenses until they killed. And they did kill, and

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Speaker 2: UH got to take the money away. That's all, That's all.

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Speaker 1: Newsome understands. He doesn't.

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Speaker 2: He's too stupid to do the right thing for the

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Speaker 2: sake of doing the right thing. He's got this, this

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Speaker 2: stupid ideology that he's marinated in. And I'm telling you,

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Speaker 2: this progressive ideology really is stupid and and the people

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Speaker 2: who adhere to it are stupid people, all right, they are.

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Speaker 2: They're stupid people. I always hate it when when somebody

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Speaker 2: tries to explain, well, why does he believe that and

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Speaker 2: why did he do that? Oh, he has this ideology. No,

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Speaker 2: what he does is he believes in stupid things. And

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Speaker 2: the progressive ideas are awful. They they're they're destructive, they fail,

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Speaker 2: they're stupid, and only stupid people would believe in a

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Speaker 2: set of ideals like the progressives do.

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Speaker 3: We will.

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Speaker 2: We will talk about another stupid progressive policy, and that

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Speaker 2: was letting drug addicts and mental patients on city buses.

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Speaker 2: And what they've been doing is they've been pooping and

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Speaker 2: pooping and pooping, and the LA Department of Transportation actually

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Speaker 2: was running videos inside the bus asking them not to poop.

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Speaker 1: I'm not making this up.

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Speaker 2: Jamie Page from the California Post is gonna explain when

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Speaker 2: she comes on. Deborah Mark is live in the KFI

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Speaker 2: twenty four our newsroom.

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