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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we got money for you as it's

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Speaker 3: got to go north, and we got to go fast

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Speaker 3: because the Northern Lights have been visible over the northern

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Speaker 3: part of the United States from Maine to Michigan. People

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Speaker 3: were able to view them last night. And also it's

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Speaker 3: possible that tonight into tomorrow, what time phenomenon may be visible.

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Speaker 1: What time, well, nighttime, I don't know. Does you say, oh,

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Speaker 1: just throughout the evening or I think so. It's probably sporadic.

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Speaker 3: Apparently there was some sort of a solar storm that

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Speaker 3: caused this to happen. On Friday, the sun let off

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Speaker 3: a large burst of energy, like a burp, like a Yes, well,

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Speaker 3: they're known as coronal mass ejections.

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Speaker 2: That sounds disgusting, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: This scientist actually said, yes, the Sun spit off a

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Speaker 3: big blob of plasma.

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Speaker 1: Right exactly. That's like phlegm. Oh, you do want to

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Speaker 1: get hit with that?

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Speaker 2: Huh?

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Speaker 1: No, solar flam that that's that burns y.

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Speaker 3: It has its own magnetic field, and it's been moving

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Speaker 3: through space and it reached Earth's magnetic field on Sunday

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Speaker 3: when the two collided to create a geomagnetic storm. And

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Speaker 3: the guy said, it got everything pretty revved up. And

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Speaker 3: when this happens, the aurora can be seen closer to

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Speaker 3: the equator. The events are not that uncommon. They occur

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Speaker 3: about one hundred occur every eleven years. I saw this

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Speaker 3: on a map last night.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they had a red line where they thought

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Speaker 1: it was going to go as far as northern California,

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Speaker 1: and then the red line went from west to east

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Speaker 1: across the country. Oh yeah, I heard it was thirty states,

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Speaker 1: but most of them are the northern states. It said

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: They on this map, they had it covering the whole

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Speaker 3: Do you see the picture in the New York Times.

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Speaker 3: It's visible over a Whitley Bay in northeastern England, which

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Speaker 3: this morning it's quite an image to you can see

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Speaker 3: the green sky in the background. Now that's something we

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Speaker 3: both talked about wanting to see. So well, I don't

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Speaker 3: really have to go to Alaska or Iceland. You have

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Speaker 3: to go on my winter.

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Speaker 2: That would be a whole vacation trip. See.

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Speaker 1: I could save a lot of buddy, if that that

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Speaker 1: phenomenon would just come this way. Yes, I see it

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Speaker 1: for five minutes and I can cross it off. It's like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't have to travel to the Arctic. Yeah, I'd

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Speaker 3: They shared images of a sky painted with deep purples

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Speaker 3: and some were seen over southern England. Now about that,

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Speaker 3: it didn't go that far south last night did not,

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Speaker 3: and and I think tonight will be even less of it.

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Speaker 1: I guess because whatever you know, that solar storm is

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Speaker 1: That's exactly how one scientist described it, burst out a

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Speaker 2: It's it's a technical term.

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Speaker 1: They right, yeah, and normally you can it's been holding

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Speaker 2: Obviously.

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Speaker 3: One of the big story today comes from three different

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Speaker 3: Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News. But the way

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Speaker 3: it's being described, it's sort of like it was mutual.

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Speaker 2: It's not.

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Speaker 1: Reading the time when I first saw the story, he

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Speaker 2: Looking at CNN here in my thought too, isn't it Well,

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Speaker 2: there was a lot going on.

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Speaker 1: They didn't like the way he was covering the January

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Speaker 1: of the House, Kevin McCarthy gave Carlson some previously unseen video,

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Speaker 1: There's also something a serious lawsuit from his producer, Abbi Grosberg,

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Speaker 1: She was ordered by company lawyers to give misleading answers

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Speaker 2: Take this for what it's worth. His departure is.

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Speaker 1: In part admission of the systemic line buillying and conspiracy

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Speaker 3: They were conflicted because we saw those behind the scene

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Speaker 1: Right then clearly he clearly Tucker Carlson is a big

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Speaker 1: phony because clearly he has Sidney Powell, that's her name,

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Speaker 1: writing text saying that he hates Trump. These lawyers are crazy.

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Speaker 1: This is all bs. But we got to keep going

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Speaker 1: because this is what the audience expects, and they was

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Speaker 1: So you look at that, and it's like, you're trying

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Speaker 2: Yeah. They were really conflicted, weren't they.

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Speaker 3: Well imagine, I mean I was watching Fox News that

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Speaker 2: This? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I know, and create a lot of anger within Fox

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Speaker 1: employees were very upset that they did that because again,

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Speaker 1: because the other Trump's plan was to go on television

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Speaker 1: that blows up Trump's plan. Now instead of being the

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Speaker 1: like sour grapes because that that sealed his fate when

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Speaker 1: he came to the electoral votes. Now, and Carlson was

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Speaker 1: and you're amplifying the conspiracy and in your private text

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Speaker 1: the judge took away a lot of Fox's conventional arguments

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Speaker 1: that they might have prevailed on. Yes, it was news,

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Speaker 1: Yes we're presenting the other side. Yes the hosts are

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Speaker 1: expressing opinions. See, that's all fair game. But once it

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Speaker 1: Course exactly, because I mean, that's that's uh, that's a company. Well,

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Speaker 1: I do remember that he was he was normal. He

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Speaker 2: Mild mannered, milk toast. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I guess he figured out what was going to make

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Speaker 2: Will Hire Tuckle. I think that's what they ought to do.

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Speaker 1: They have no programs, they have no ratings, they have

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Speaker 2: This morning, we'll bring you that story.

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Speaker 1: Also coming up, we're gonna be talking to Blake Trolley

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, it started kind of mildly this Morning

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Speaker 3: But then hours later Tucker Carlson's outed Fox News and

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Speaker 3: now Don Lemonhead has parted ways with CNN. Seventeen years

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Speaker 1: Really dawn on me that I don't watch that channel either,

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Speaker 1: But I had no idea he was there that long.

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Speaker 2: And you know what I do? Oh, I just did

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Speaker 2: what you do? You know what? You know what I know?

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Speaker 1: I did it. It's a Jersey thing. I'm telling myself.

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Speaker 1: I'm not from Jersey. I do know some people that

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Speaker 3: Well, and including of course MSNBC and CNBC also networks

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Speaker 2: You know what, I'm actually very amused by this.

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Speaker 3: Well, but my point was, none of them ever mentioned

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Speaker 2: He has no following. It's a good point. Nobody was

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Speaker 1: Right, there's some tabloids that follow this breathlessly. I can't

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Speaker 1: You don't know what the story is, but uh, you

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson was on television for twenty five years before

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Speaker 1: He and I don't know what Don Lemon believes in.

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Speaker 1: And this works on the fringe people, right, the people

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, not one day on that show, meant what

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Speaker 1: These people want hamburgers, I'm going to sell them hamburgers. Well,

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Speaker 1: Top, right, The Frankenstein monster got out of control. Once

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Speaker 1: Trump said the election stolen that a lot of his

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Speaker 1: and we'll get this lawyer and that lawyer, and Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's the story. Because if we don't do it, someone

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Speaker 1: more complicated than that. And that's the truth. And you

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Speaker 2: But that's human nature.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, whatever happened to Let's just program for the

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Speaker 3: Rabbit holes on either the left or the right. They're

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Speaker 3: and I've told people this who ask me these questions,

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Speaker 3: not be there every day. No, But once you start

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Speaker 3: programming to the rabbit hole conspiracy hole people, they're there

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Speaker 2: They're like, you're yeah, you're my guy, Well you're twenty

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Speaker 1: Anything you have to say, I gobble it up number

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and now that we have so many media outlets

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you could get I mean, I mean it's

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Speaker 1: And again, you're getting less than one percent of the

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Speaker 3: All right, when we return, and at least ten restaurants

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Speaker 2: This is almost hard to believe.

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Speaker 1: There is video, but of course most of the robbers

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Speaker 3: the mayor of Laverne, John how about that?

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Speaker 3: We're bringing them on because this is something you need

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Speaker 3: But in this particular case, where they want to put

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Speaker 3: Shirley's You like that joke. You know it's ken not

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Speaker 3: so good, but you see, this is the trick. They're

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Speaker 2: So this is crazy.

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Speaker 1: Glendale ten restaurants burglarized early Saturday morning streak.

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Speaker 2: I wonder how long that took. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I love the list, sing Wu Kitchen, Yeah, Cafe Bravo,

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Speaker 1: only I saw the Ti Touch guy on TV talking

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Speaker 1: about this. Because there is surveillance video. Let's bring Blake

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Speaker 1: Trolley on from KFI News. It's got a lot more

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Speaker 1: details on this madness. Well, they hit every ethnicity on

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Speaker 7: It was like a dining and dash without the dying guys.

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Speaker 7: And all of these took place within you you ask

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Speaker 7: Seven of these break ins we're at businesses on Colorado.

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Speaker 7: and one three people in hoods are seen smashing into

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Speaker 7: a restaurant. It appears these guys did have a pattern.

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Speaker 7: You see this in this video as well. They broke in,

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Speaker 7: went for the cast register, then took off. Now, police

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Speaker 7: at this time do not have any suspect information, nor

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Speaker 7: have they confirmed how many suspects there are. We know

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Speaker 7: at least three, at least judging by the surveillance video

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Speaker 7: that surface they stay. They're still in the process of

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Speaker 7: looking through surveillance video.

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Speaker 2: What did they take?

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Speaker 7: That's the interesting thing.

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Speaker 2: Not a whole lot.

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Speaker 7: It sounds like a lot of these restaurants have become

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Speaker 7: kind of wise to this because at least in the

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Speaker 7: case that you know, I spoke to one of the

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Speaker 7: restaurant owners. We'll get to that right now. Actually, this

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Speaker 7: is Rockbird, the owner of Rockbird, and he gave us

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Speaker 7: a rundown of what happened.

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Speaker 8: In the morning of Saturday, at around two am. We

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Speaker 8: were broken into for the second time this year. So

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Speaker 8: we were broken into. Three individuals came in. They went

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Speaker 8: straight to the cash register, took about eight dollars in

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Speaker 8: change eight, opened up a few drawers, try to look

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Speaker 8: for some things, and that's all they got eight dollars.

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Speaker 7: But I know your window was smashed out. I mean

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Speaker 7: I saw the photos on social media. What did that

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Speaker 7: cost you?

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Speaker 8: That runs us about fifteen hundred dollars, And so fifteen

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Speaker 8: hundred dollars twice within four months is a pretty pennon.

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Speaker 7: So this is the second time they've been hit. And again,

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Speaker 7: as you guys hear, they're not a whole lot of

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Speaker 7: money was taken. I've seen reports and interviews with other

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Speaker 7: business owners who say very similarly that they are not

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Speaker 7: keeping a lot of cash in their register. So at

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Speaker 7: this point, I haven't heard of some astronomical figure money

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Speaker 7: being taken from anybody that said it is costly here

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Speaker 7: and there talking about three thousand dollars on you out

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Speaker 7: of the two doors in just a few months and rest.

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Speaker 2: The purpose wasn't vandalism. The purpose was to sh.

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Speaker 3: To find something to steal. I mean, but yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: what I heard. The store owners say that we're small businesses.

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Speaker 3: There's not much here to take. These are just dumb burglars.

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Speaker 2: You know, guys.

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Speaker 7: One of the things I want to point out is

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Speaker 7: that it appears they were really after these small restaurants.

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Speaker 7: And the best example of that I can give you

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Speaker 7: is on Colorado there's a little restaurant. Again, all of

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Speaker 7: these restaurants are in strip malls. These are like hole

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Speaker 7: in the wall type places. If you on Colorado, there's

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Speaker 7: one door, it's it's busted out. Then there's an untouched business,

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Speaker 7: then another restaurant that has its door busted out. Well

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Speaker 7: that untouched business in the middle. So this would be

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Speaker 7: the meat of the sandwich. Is a luxury pawnshop with

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Speaker 7: jewelry Kate Spade bags, Louis Vaton bags inside, they spoke

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Speaker 7: to the owner. She said that just the presence of

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Speaker 7: them busting the windows next to her business on either

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Speaker 7: side tripped her alarmed. Twice she thought for sure it

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Speaker 7: was her business. Do you feel lucky that they don't choose?

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Speaker 7: I mean, I'm seeing Louis Vaton bags. You've got plenty

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Speaker 7: of expensive jewelry here, I mean, Kate Spade bags. Are

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Speaker 7: you surprised they didn't choose to come inside here?

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Speaker 4: A little?

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Speaker 9: I mean I think that lucky on one hand, but

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Speaker 9: also nervous. I don't know yours sort of think like,

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Speaker 9: I mean, were they trying to get to us? You know,

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Speaker 9: it's flanking me on both sides. But it's kind of

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Speaker 9: my thoughts where when I really like, when I took

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Speaker 9: the emotion out of it is, first of all, from

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Speaker 9: what I've been reading, it's all restaurants that had been hit,

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Speaker 9: and so my assumption might be that they just think

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Speaker 9: that we are alarmed to the hilt, you know, and

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Speaker 9: so it's just your easiest what's the easiest thing that

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Speaker 9: I can get through and into the next and probably

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Speaker 9: mine isn't because you'll even see behind you. Is so

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Speaker 9: we have these windows here, but then there's also that

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Speaker 9: roll down security gate, and so we run those screens

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Speaker 9: at night, but you can see into it. So maybe

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Speaker 9: it was just doesn't look easy, doesn't look fast.

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Speaker 7: But what gets even weirder about this, guys, is if

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Speaker 7: you go to back to Rockbird, you think, okay, well,

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Speaker 7: maybe it's that she had added security. But again, there

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Speaker 7: was a liquor store right next door.

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Speaker 2: They didn't hit that.

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Speaker 7: So it's kind of like, why these ten businesses. There's

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Speaker 7: so many questions that are just fore.

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Speaker 3: You said, they've been burglarized before, did they get much

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Speaker 3: the first time?

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Speaker 2: Why would they come back?

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Speaker 7: So yeah, when it comes to Rock Bird, it was

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Speaker 7: confirmed to me that a few months ago, so this

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Speaker 7: was in January, they had a group of people go

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Speaker 7: in there and they stole eight hundred dollars and took off.

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Speaker 7: And by the way, the woman I just spoke with,

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Speaker 7: the one who runs the jewelry store, says both of

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Speaker 7: those restaurants on either side of her had been broken

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Speaker 7: into before. Both those restaurants, unfortunately today are closed. I

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Speaker 7: wasn't able to get in and speak with the owners.

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Speaker 7: But again they'd had been hit before. The Thai restaurants said,

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Speaker 7: you know, he'd been hit before. So it sounds like,

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Speaker 7: you know, they've really got a theft issue around here.

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Speaker 7: You know, when you hear about these repeat these repeat breaking.

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Speaker 1: But for restaurants and most small businesses, nobody keeps cash

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Speaker 1: in the register anymore now.

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Speaker 7: And you saw that with the reporting and doct John

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Speaker 7: one of the guy at Rockbert, said they're thinking about

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Speaker 7: just going cash lists completely for what it's worth.

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Speaker 2: That's another thing.

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Speaker 1: Most people are using credit cards or debit cards to

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Speaker 1: pay for their ordinary purchases and meals during the day.

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Speaker 1: You know, I rarely see anybody pull out a lot

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Speaker 1: of cash to pay.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I thought they might take equipment, their food,

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Speaker 3: even they're just looking for the cash, huh.

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Speaker 7: They went straight for the cast drawers, straight for the

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Speaker 7: cast register. But it really makes you wonder why are

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00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 7: they targeting these small restaurants. Maybe it is low security.

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Speaker 7: Maybe they feel like it's you know, small amounts of

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Speaker 7: money and if you know you hit ten, you get

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Speaker 7: you know, these little increments of money that charges would

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Speaker 7: be lower.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many theories here. They're dumb thieves,

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Speaker 1: that's what it is. Maybe they were stoned, whacked out

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Speaker 1: on some drive that just needs some money for something.

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Speaker 1: That's that's you obviously would like when I when we

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Speaker 1: saw those run of smash and grab robberies in Beverly Hills,

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Speaker 1: jewelry stores, handbag stores, that made sense, right, that's.

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Speaker 2: Thousands of dollars, high end item. This this is ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Stealing a petty change out of a out of a

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Speaker 1: cash register is nuts.

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Speaker 2: And it's costly to these businesses.

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Speaker 1: You know that.

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Speaker 7: The one thing that the guy from Rockberts told He's like,

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Speaker 7: we're all small businesses, you know, replacing our door for

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Speaker 7: fifteen hundred bucks. This is a big expense for a

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Speaker 7: business this size. So all these people are being hit

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Speaker 7: with these huge but you know, as far as to

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Speaker 7: scale to their business, these are big bills.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're being left with from this. So all right, Blake,

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Speaker 2: thank you very much, appreciate it. Thanks guys, Blake Trolley.

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Speaker 3: KFI News covering the burglary over Saturday night of ten

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Speaker 3: at least ten restaurants in Glendale within a couple hour period.

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Speaker 3: We also found out today that a San Francisco Target

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Speaker 3: store has now been putting all of its products on lockdown,

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Speaker 3: all of their apparently footage was posted to TikTok showing

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Speaker 3: ale after aisle of toilet trees and cosmetics under lock

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Speaker 3: and key in this particular Target store in San Francisco.

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Speaker 3: You probably are aware that sometimes razors are locked up

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Speaker 3: in some other items, but in this case even mouth wash, shampoo,

587
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Speaker 3: lotion all locked up, So that means to buy anything

588
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,239
Speaker 3: there you'd have to find what a clerk and get

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Speaker 3: them to open up the what a pain in the neck.

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Speaker 1: See, that's not worth that's not a store worth shopping.

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Speaker 1: It a pack of gum I've got. I've got no

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Speaker 1: patient because they don't have employees at these stores.

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Speaker 2: They just don't.

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Speaker 1: I've gone into a Walgreens recently in San Francisco, actually

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Speaker 1: a few months ago. They have no employees, and they

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Speaker 1: what they have in the aisles. They have a pillar

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Speaker 1: and there's a little box on the pillar with a

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Speaker 1: red button and press the red button to.

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Speaker 2: Get a uh.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes nothing happens, and you press it and sometimes there's

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Speaker 1: a little announcement. Help wanted in the farm. Help wanted

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Speaker 1: in the farm. So nobody comes, so I hit it

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Speaker 1: a second time. Help wanted in the pharmacut. They had

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Speaker 1: a third time, and you know it keeps going off

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Speaker 1: on the speaker, but no human being shows up. I

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Speaker 1: have no patience for this. I don't care about your problems.

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Speaker 1: You've got shoplifters. You should be electing different people who

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Speaker 1: put the shoplifters in jail. You don't do that, because

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00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: you know everybody in San Francisco is voting for the

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Speaker 1: idiot politicians who allow the shoplifters to run wild. Right

611
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Speaker 1: that that place is like ninety three percent Democrat, So

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Speaker 1: I know the voting patterns of everybody who owns these businesses.

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Speaker 1: I just buy everything online now and have it delivered.

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Speaker 1: Ah yeah, I do a lot of that now too,

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Speaker 1: even like household products, right, I don't bother. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's just a few grocery items I go pick up. Well,

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Speaker 1: because nothing's in stock. They don't have any employees anymore

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Speaker 1: at these places.

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Speaker 2: It's just a assle. Lines are too long.

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Speaker 1: You know, they have seven cash register stations and they'll

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Speaker 1: have one employee working, and there's literally because I counted

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Speaker 1: this one day I went in to buy something, I

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Speaker 1: counted twenty two people in line.

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Speaker 2: I turned around and got out of there. I comeing

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Speaker 2: up more.

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Speaker 2: His name is Tim Hepburn.

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Speaker 3: We'll be talking to him about, well, what do you

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Speaker 3: know putting up to a big housing project that is

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Speaker 3: not in Laverne, and it's not in nearby town San Dimas,

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Speaker 3: means the La County Board of Supervisors and other state

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Speaker 3: people are controlling the situation, and well they're gonna He's

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Speaker 3: gonna talk.

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Speaker 2: To us about it.

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Speaker 3: It's a proposed affordable housing project at seven forty East

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Speaker 3: Foothill Boulevard, and one of the problems or the complaints

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Speaker 3: from local officials is they really weren't given much information

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Speaker 3: or a heads up about this. It's just going to happen.

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Speaker 3: And this is probably another peak at the future. And

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Speaker 3: they want to put up these large housing projects. And

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Speaker 3: if they get a lot of opposition like they have

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Speaker 3: from places in Huntington Beach and we talked about the

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Speaker 3: Island of Coronado last week, they'll just find places probably

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Speaker 3: close enough to your town, but not run or controlled

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Speaker 3: by your town. They can just PLoP up big affordable

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Speaker 3: housing projects. That's another plan the way they can do

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Speaker 3: this because no town, no neighborhood watchs these. Nobody wants

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Speaker 3: these projects, right because what kind of people are you

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Speaker 3: going to have living there? A lot of people don't

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Speaker 3: want to live next to the housing project crowd.

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Speaker 2: They don't.

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Speaker 3: No, this was this is a particular fifty four units,

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Speaker 3: fifty three one bedroom, one two bedroom manager.

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Speaker 1: Units, and nobody wants to be told they have to.

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Speaker 1: You will get no stiffer opposition than if you tell people, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna move a new crowd in next door to you,

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Speaker 1: and you're just gonna have to suck it up and

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Speaker 1: take it. Oh my god, you're gonna get so much resistance.

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Speaker 1: And they all they always get resisted she can't do

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Speaker 1: that to people, and they don't care what.

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Speaker 2: Names you call them. They don't.

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Speaker 3: Well, we're gonna check in on something we've talked about

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Speaker 3: a bit over the last several weeks, after the disappointing

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Speaker 3: appointment of Eric Garcetti to become ambassador to India after

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Speaker 3: a year and a half. It's too bad, though it happened,

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Speaker 3: and I guess he's there, we don't know. The next

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Speaker 3: battle is to try to keep a woman who ran

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Speaker 3: our labor department here in California away from.

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Speaker 2: A better job. Her name is Julie Sue.

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Speaker 3: She's a lifetime labor union official, but she was the

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Speaker 3: state of California's head of labor before Biden tapped her.

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Speaker 2: As a deputy in the US Department of Labor, and.

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Speaker 3: Now she's nominated to take over the entire United States

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Speaker 3: Labor Department as the secretary. What city on the table

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Speaker 3: is the one thing, the huge fraud that she presided

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Speaker 3: over when she was the head of labor in California,

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Speaker 3: over thirty billion dollars was stolen. So she's going through

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Speaker 3: her confirmation hearings in the Senate Now Committee and maybe

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Speaker 3: eventually a full Senate vote, and who but the man

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Speaker 3: that ran for president in twenty twelve would go after her.

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Speaker 3: Does anybody remember who challenged Obama in twenty twelve?

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Speaker 2: That'd be Mitt Romney. Here you go, eleven years ago,

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Speaker 2: I got a prize.

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Speaker 1: It was Mitt Romney who eventually went on to become

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Speaker 1: a US Senator from Utah.

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Speaker 2: And we have a back and forth between Romney and

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Speaker 2: Julie Sue.

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Speaker 6: Under your leadership in California, thirty one billion dollars was

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Speaker 6: fraudilely paid out. Now, there's a principle in all sorts

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Speaker 6: of enterprises known as the Peter principle, which is people

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Speaker 6: get promoted to a point where their competence is no longer.

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Speaker 2: Bablished.

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Speaker 6: In this case, your record there is so severely lacking.

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Speaker 6: I don't know how in the world it makes sense

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Speaker 6: for the president to nominate you to take over this department.

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Speaker 6: To work behind Marty Walsh is one thing, and to

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Speaker 6: learn from him, But you haven't had experience in negotiating

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Speaker 6: a major deal between unions and management, and your leadership

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Speaker 6: of an enterprise resulted in thirty one billion dollars of

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Speaker 6: fraudulent payments. What am I missing?

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Speaker 10: So, Senator thank you on both those points.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 10: In terms of business leaders, I think that business leaders

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Speaker 10: and industry associations who've worked with me would paint a

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Speaker 10: different story about both my openness and my desire.

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Speaker 2: You've got to meet with them for them to do so.

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Speaker 6: If you haven't met with them for the first two

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Speaker 6: years until six weeks ago, and you met with unions regularly,

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Speaker 6: that sends a pretty clear message to those business leaders on.

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Speaker 4: That relationships are very important. I believe that I have them,

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Speaker 4: and I'd be happy to talk to you more about

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Speaker 4: them at any time. But as I said in my

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Speaker 4: opening statement, I think anybody who knows my record would

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Speaker 4: say that I am someone who is communicative, transparent, and

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Speaker 4: really sees that there is tremendous areas of common ground

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Speaker 4: between employers who are job creators and.

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Speaker 2: Employees who do the world.

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Speaker 6: That's as accurate as it is irrelevant to your competence

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Speaker 6: to be able to lead a negotiation as a fraud

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Speaker 6: between unions and management. Help me with a thirty one

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Speaker 6: billion dollar Thank you for.

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Speaker 4: That, Senator. So the vast majority over ninety five percent

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Speaker 4: of the fraud in the unemployment system, not just in California,

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Speaker 4: but across the nation was in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program,

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Speaker 4: a program that was passed by Congress to meet a

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Speaker 4: very very urgent need, an unprecedented crisis that was viewed

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Speaker 4: to require an unprecedented solution. That pandemic Unemployment Assistance program

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Speaker 4: did not have the safeguards that regular unemployment insurance does.

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Speaker 6: It has set those safeguards, There are guidelines in California.

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Speaker 6: You chose to wave to get that money out. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: thirty one billion dollars. We realized what thirty one billion

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Speaker 6: dollars would have meant to the people in Ukraine had

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Speaker 6: we been able to double our military support there.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, And that is why I fraud, waste, and

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Speaker 4: abuse of any kind is completely unacceptable.

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Speaker 2: That is win in California.

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Speaker 4: As soon as we knew that there was fraud happening,

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Speaker 4: I shut the front door to that fraud. I made

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Speaker 4: changes to the program and would ensure that people couldn't

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Speaker 4: get in the front door. But to be very clear,

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Speaker 4: the state auditor, who did many audits, never said never

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Speaker 4: found that my eliminating eligibility requirements resulted in any of

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Speaker 4: the pandemic u employment sins.

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Speaker 6: We're talking about.

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Speaker 2: My time is up.

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Speaker 6: The buck stops at the top. You're the person running UI.

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Speaker 6: You're the one that decided to wave the guards thirty

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Speaker 6: one billion dollars. The idea of promoting a person who's

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Speaker 6: had that experience to a position of leadership of the

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Speaker 6: entire Department of Labor makes no sense at all.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thirty one thank you, thank you, thank you

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Speaker 2: for that question.

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Speaker 1: Thirty one billion dollars is about as much money as

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Speaker 1: we spent in military aid to Ukraine. According to Romney,

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Speaker 1: it's twice the total budget of the Department of Labor.

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Speaker 1: She threw in the garbage, twice as much money as

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Speaker 1: her entire department would spend in a given year. And

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Speaker 1: she's up to be head of the Department of Labor,

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Speaker 1: the United States Department of Labor.

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Speaker 2: She's going to run it.

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Speaker 1: After sopple through that answer, let's just thank you, yes,

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Speaker 1: thank you.

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Speaker 2: Plus listen to her talk. She's a dud.

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Speaker 3: Let's not forget the other issue it's got her face

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Speaker 3: on it, which is Assembly Bill five. That's the one

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Speaker 3: that was going to tank. The freelancers in the state,

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Speaker 3: people that make their own hours. Some of them drive

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Speaker 3: the ubers, some of them do many other jobs. That

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Speaker 3: was she pushed that through. She was a big proponent

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Speaker 3: of it, even though it came through the legislature. They're

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Speaker 3: saying that now that she if she becomes Labor Secretary,

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Speaker 3: this is going to be something she wants to do nationwide.

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Speaker 1: She ruined the lives of independent contractors until the law

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Speaker 1: was repealed.

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Speaker 3: Two things happened, right, well, the thing that happened affected

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Speaker 3: uber lyft drivers. But they started carving out all sorts

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Speaker 3: of exemptions is what happened. So many many freelancers got

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Speaker 3: around AB.

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Speaker 1: Five because of either the ballot measure or because they

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Speaker 1: carved out a whole lot of exception. But she pushed

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Speaker 1: it in her world. In her world, there'd be no

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Speaker 1: independent contractors in the United States if she if we

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Speaker 1: could have Julie Sue's government.

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Speaker 3: Because she's in the pocket of the unions. That's what

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Speaker 3: you heard Romney saying. She's meeting with all these union officials,

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Speaker 3: ignoring business leaders.

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Speaker 2: So that's who she is.

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Speaker 1: So people who work hard and run their own businesses

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Speaker 1: as independent contractors, you all are out of business. If

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Speaker 1: you're a fraudster, you're in business. Had we had thirty

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Speaker 1: one billion dollars for you here.

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Speaker 3: If you're a croc, let's not forget why they pushed

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Speaker 3: Assembly Bill five, and that that cow Lorena Gonzalez from

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Speaker 3: San Diego who's to be in the Assembly, she's now

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Speaker 3: the head of a big labor organization.

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Speaker 2: That's all.

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Speaker 3: It was as an attempt to get everybody unionized.

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Speaker 1: That's what they wanted to do. By making them employees.

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Speaker 1: The next step would be to unionize them. It was

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Speaker 1: just a massive union effort.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 3: When we returned, we're going to be talking to the

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Speaker 3: mayor of Laverne, Tim Heppern, who's going to talk about

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Speaker 3: the frustrations that he and a neighboring community of San

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Speaker 3: Dimas's feeling because they're putting up a housing project and

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Speaker 3: probably not much they can do about it, but they

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