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Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio

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Speaker 2: app The worst run city in North America the city

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Speaker 2: of Los Angeles. You've heard what's going on the Karen

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Speaker 2: Department chief Kristin Crowley. The hearing for her appeal before

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Speaker 2: city council is going to be on Tuesday. You have

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Speaker 2: another councilwoman named Isabelle Morado who is photographed a sleep

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Speaker 2: in a city council meeting. Her response was I was reading.

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Speaker 2: And then you have an La City council women in

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Speaker 2: unic Is Hernandez breaking down in tears during the city

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Speaker 2: council meeting. Not over the Palisades fire victims. Not over

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Speaker 2: the people who died in the Palisades or the thousands

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Speaker 2: who lost their homes and lives have been ruined. Not

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Speaker 2: over the children who lost their schools and friends. No,

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Speaker 2: it's about how criminal illegal aliens are getting arrested. Let's

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Speaker 2: play cut number eight.

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Speaker 1: Talk to your friends and neighbors.

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Speaker 3: We know that the best way to protect each other

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Speaker 3: is by knowing our rights.

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Speaker 1: So get make sure you go to.

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Speaker 4: Know your rights trainings, carry red cards, create an emergency plan,

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Speaker 4: get informed, and get together because we keep us safe.

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Speaker 1: So colleagues and everybody out there, please.

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Speaker 3: Please if you can, host know your Rights trainings in

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Speaker 3: your district community, and this is the edgels.

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Speaker 1: Learn your rights, because that's how we're keeping people from

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Speaker 1: being taken.

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Speaker 2: Trump declared English the national language right he signed an

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Speaker 2: executive orders. Dre what she's doing speaking Spanish? What's going

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Speaker 2: on there? That's violation of the executive order? Did we

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Speaker 2: get invaded by a foreign power? Did our government get

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Speaker 2: invaded by foreign power? Because she's standing there crying over

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Speaker 2: going after for now is criminals, and that's what she's

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Speaker 1: Totally.

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Speaker 2: And that Democratic Socialist of America, boy, that's a bad organization.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how they ended up with four members

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Speaker 2: is here to talk about a number of council people

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Speaker 1: Michael, what do you know buenistad s.

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Speaker 2: The official language of the John Comel Show is English.

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Speaker 5: So this happened. The remarks that you just heard from

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Speaker 5: Councilman Unsses Hernandez. Happened after a little bit of council

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Speaker 5: business during their special meeting in Van Niser, doing this

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Speaker 5: So it was almost as if something had been messaged

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Speaker 5: to her at that moment that she tearfully stood up

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Speaker 5: there are apparently reports that there are ICE activities taking

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Speaker 5: Council President Marquis Harris Dawson, who represents South La him again,

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Speaker 5: and parts of this he has been and so all

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Speaker 2: The guy who's been indicted is giving a warning out

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Speaker 5: The verbige that they're using is know your rights, the

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Speaker 5: suggestion being that even if you're here illegally, you do

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Speaker 1: Dides' probably say anything about the palis Stages fire.

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Speaker 5: Not today, not today, Okay, not today. There are also

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Speaker 5: some activities. Look here, here's what we're seeing. We're seeing

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Speaker 2: Right, right, are supposed to be going after people ex

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Speaker 5: There is a demonstration scheduled today at forty first Street

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because we have a million illegal aliens that live

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Speaker 5: A significant portion of the population and a significant portion

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Speaker 5: of the economy, is what you hear. A lot of

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Speaker 2: The city and asked to see you know, if you're

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Speaker 2: entitled time, I guess I have to cook my own food.

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Speaker 2: I'll go to the restaurant cook my own food. You

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Speaker 2: might have better luck. I know you had a bad

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Speaker 2: at least i'd pay attention to my order, like when

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 5: But even the La Times just today had an article

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Speaker 1: They want employers to know what their rights are.

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Speaker 2: I know, the Times helping out the illegal alien criminals

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Speaker 5: They're spelling out what folks should do in case any

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Speaker 2: We're in the upside down universe here. No, this is

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Speaker 1: It is just La Man.

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Speaker 2: Meantime, all the poor Palisades people are stuck in a

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll let you know.

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Speaker 5: Another piece of business that came out of Council today

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Speaker 1: So that was on the end of today.

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Speaker 2: So again, more foreigners people coming in from two hundred

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Speaker 5: Of exactly any Look, we dealt with the fires in January.

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Speaker 5: We have the rebuild effort ahead right now at is

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Speaker 5: City Hall that is on fire with the political fallout

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna be exciting day, and I guess there is.

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Speaker 2: She Crowley's going to appear before the City Council.

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Speaker 5: That's what it looks like because she does have under

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Speaker 5: the city Charter the right to appeal the firing from

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Speaker 5: if she can, they do have the authority to reinstate her.

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Speaker 5: I don't think the math looks good for her, but

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Speaker 5: She should go scorch Dirth on Bass. I'm really sure

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Speaker 5: not a bad strategy if you oppose the mayor, because

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Speaker 5: it does keep the focus on this decision, which has

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Speaker 1: Very good.

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Speaker 2: Michael monks, Thank you, my pleasure. KFI News exciting times

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Speaker 2: all right, when we come back, I don't know what

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Speaker 2: One city council woman and this is Hernandez breaking into tears.

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Speaker 2: She's trying to she's trying to warn illegal alien criminals

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Speaker 2: I caught you dozing in there. I admit it, But

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Speaker 7: Yes, I've been doing it so long that, yes, I

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Speaker 2: Now, well, Deb's going to do that at two thirty.

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Speaker 2: Here's another stupid thing the council is doing. They're going

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Speaker 2: after a tree house. Rick Polizzi, if I'm pronouncing his

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Speaker 2: Twenty four years ago, he built a treehouse on his

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Speaker 1: You believe this, you people.

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Speaker 2: In the Palisades, You're doomed. Look what they're doing to

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Speaker 2: a guy who has a tree house from twenty four

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Speaker 7: They don't have better things to worry about.

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Speaker 2: And this is what they're doing. They harassed normal people, taxpayers.

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Speaker 2: He has spent fifty thousand dollars on legal fees and

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Speaker 2: zoning permits. It's a three story treehouse. It's his tree.

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Speaker 2: There's a trial coming in March. The city is pursuing

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Speaker 2: criminal charges against him, criminal charges for having an illegal

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Speaker 2: than spend thousands more defending himself in court. What can

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Speaker 2: we not get a bulldozer and buldeoz city Hall and

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Speaker 2: everybody inside. I don't see another solution because you can't

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Speaker 2: So six thousand people signed a petition to try to

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Speaker 2: I'm not spending another thirty thousand dollars in court for

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Speaker 2: This guy's actually accomplished things outside of unlike all the

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Speaker 2: And who are these who are these pinheaded bureaucrats that

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Speaker 1: I I did. I'm just so.

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Speaker 2: And you know who's involved in this, Nthea Raman, another

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Speaker 7: He should go and draft up something that says that

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Speaker 1: I would think his treehouse is already covered by his insurance.

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Speaker 7: But at least he can he could show proof and say, look,

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Speaker 2: Nythia Ramen had a homeless encampment in her district in

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Speaker 1: And for that.

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Speaker 2: Interestingly, they didn't have purpots to sell guns and drugs

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Speaker 2: Nathia Raman was shown this didn't care. The restaurant owner

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Speaker 2: Nythia Raman's gone after him. She claims she's worked with

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Speaker 2: What do you mean you worked with to try to

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Speaker 1: To go f off?

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Speaker 2: Our goal has always been to find a pathway to

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Speaker 2: sending him a threatening mail.

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Speaker 1: Just stop it.

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Speaker 2: Go home, go away, Go clean up the drug addicts

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Speaker 2: He built it along three gum trees. It has a

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Speaker 1: That sounds like fun.

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Speaker 7: An indoor bar. Wow, Oh, probably not for the kids.

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Speaker 7: I was gonna say, I don't know what he was mocktails.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Now, this thing was built around two thousand and one.

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Speaker 2: The Los Angeles Department of Building Safety filed a code

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Speaker 2: I had a clubhouse in our backyard. It wasn't up

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. Was I supposed to have a

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Speaker 2: The city filed misdemeanor charges against him in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: He's been trying fighting for five years to get them

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Speaker 2: dismissed meantime. Meantime, the illegal alien criminals who've actually committed crimes,

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Speaker 2: they have council people crying for them and giving out

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Speaker 2: Eric Garcetti and his daughter have visited the treehouse, but

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Speaker 2: just I so want everyone in La City government to

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Speaker 1: In fact, why I don't.

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Speaker 2: I was just a way to deport all of them

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Speaker 2: and just start again Bulbos City Hall and start again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just.

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Speaker 2: There's nothing left to say. This is so insane and

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Speaker 1: The Rahman.

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Speaker 2: She actually one reelection last time around. This was after

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Speaker 1: That's just it's just overwhelming.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI A

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Speaker 2: We are on from one until four o'clock. After three

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Speaker 1: There's a hundred of them that are busted.

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Speaker 2: Why the firefighters, why the engines that were working were

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Speaker 1: Twent two months.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk now with Jamie Page and she's

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Speaker 8: How are you today?

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Speaker 1: I'm fine?

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Speaker 8: A basic information that you would expect to have as

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Speaker 2: It has Have they made any requests that would shed

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Speaker 8: We've asked that question. And even though she left when

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Speaker 8: It was not in place.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because they have an emergency center, don't they They.

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Speaker 8: This time, when we knew that we had Hurricane Wins coming,

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Speaker 2: So we don't know the details minute by minute of

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Speaker 1: There's been no story told at all.

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Speaker 8: There isn't. But you know, we have history ourselves to

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Speaker 8: We inform people so they stay safe during these times,

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Speaker 8: and then we asked questions. We asked questions like why

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Speaker 8: A lot of people are really angry. You know. One

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Speaker 8: a lot of people are in limble right now of

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Speaker 8: what they can do to move forward with just some

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Speaker 8: of the basic stuff filing insurance claims. Well, you have

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Speaker 8: to know some of the stuff that filing insurance claims of.

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Speaker 8: You know, how what happened with the fire, What did

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Speaker 8: you have getting access to records? Again, a lot of

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Speaker 8: the information that they're looking for they don't have. The

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Speaker 8: other thing that I'm seeing is there's a lot of

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Speaker 8: theories out there, and typically when people come up even

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Speaker 8: with these conspiracy theories, it's because there's no information, so

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Speaker 8: all they have to do is kind of come up

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Speaker 8: with their own theory on their own.

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Speaker 2: Well, when you have such a blackout of information, I

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Speaker 2: mean it's nearly a total blackout, and you've been driving

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Speaker 2: for two months to get information and you've gotten very little,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I wonder people are going to fill in

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Speaker 2: the blanks and maybe they're right, Maybe they aren't conspiracy theories.

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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe whatever threads they're pulling on might lead to

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Speaker 2: something real.

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Speaker 8: Well in your example of the lead of what's happening

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Speaker 8: in the nation right now, I mean, just bring it local. Right,

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Speaker 8: We're seeing everybody fight pointing fingers and there's no information.

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Speaker 8: Just is Steve Soberoff getting paid or is he not?

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Speaker 8: You know, was she's probably doing what she's supposed to

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Speaker 8: do or is she not? All we're seeing is finger

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Speaker 8: pointing and now very dysfunctional city and county leaders who

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Speaker 8: are supposed to be in charge right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the sober Off thing.

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Speaker 2: He's claiming, you know, when he spoke at Harvard Westlake

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Speaker 2: that he was lied to by Bass. And according to

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Speaker 2: the La Times, these philanthropic organizations that were going to

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Speaker 2: finance sober Off, they felt they were lied to. They

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Speaker 2: weren't told that they were given sober Off a half

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Speaker 2: million dollars for three months work. I guess they thought

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Speaker 2: they were giving money to some general fire fund to

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Speaker 2: help people. And so Bass is being accused of lying

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Speaker 2: to both sides on that one. And I just don't

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Speaker 2: understand how she keeps existing, is Mayor with all this

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Speaker 2: swirling around. I've never seen anybody perform this badly in

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Speaker 2: my life in a pressure situation.

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Speaker 1: I just it's incredible.

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Speaker 2: And she's surviving because she's refusing to speak, and you're pushing,

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Speaker 2: but not enough, not enough journalists in this city are pushing.

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Speaker 8: Well. I think we all need to push hard and

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Speaker 8: get the answers. And you show was like yours, where

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Speaker 8: we're just raising awareness. I typically would not do a

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Speaker 8: story like we did about not getting the records, but

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Speaker 8: at some point that's the story, right that we've asked

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Speaker 8: for questions and very again basic questions that we ask

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Speaker 8: in an emergency situation like this. We want to we

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Speaker 8: want to see the call log. We want to see

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Speaker 8: how nine to one one. We want to see how

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Speaker 8: quickly fire trucks respond into this, so that we can

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Speaker 8: tell people what the answers are. Now, we didn't have questions,

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Speaker 8: there's own timeline. Are our open records? Was just immediately closed.

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Speaker 8: I've never seen that either within five minutes of a

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Speaker 8: request one of mine was closed. We talk about no transparency.

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Speaker 2: In your experience when you don't get answers, Is it

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Speaker 2: because they're covering up good news?

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Speaker 8: It would yeah, oh not good news?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good news.

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Speaker 2: Did they usually cover up good news when they refuse

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Speaker 2: to answer your questions?

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Speaker 8: No, we're the first to hear about locking arms. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: that's that question. All right.

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Speaker 2: Well, Jamie, thank you for coming on, and if you

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Speaker 2: find out stuff, please let us know and we can

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Speaker 2: air it out here too.

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Speaker 8: I will send your producer a text as soon as

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Speaker 8: I hear more.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: By the way, you have a great news site there

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Speaker 2: westside current dot com. I read that all the time.

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Speaker 8: Thank you. You have a great show.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: A lot of useful news there, Jamie Page there Westside

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Speaker 2: Current dot com. You live on the West Side. That's

519
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Speaker 2: must read because there isn't much else. It's every man

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Speaker 2: for himself. Coming up after three o'clock, we've got some

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Speaker 2: entertaining fireworks between the Ukrainian president Zelenski Trump jd Vance.

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Speaker 1: They got into a big fight.

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Speaker 2: They were supposed to sign an agreement that eventually this

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Speaker 2: would be step one towards peace. There was no peace,

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Speaker 2: not even close. A lot of yelling, I'm watching the replace.

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Speaker 2: Trump actually hit Vzelenski a couple of times on the arm.

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Speaker 2: It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

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Speaker 6: Listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI AM six forty.

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Speaker 2: Tom McLintock now coming on at three o'clock. Just got him,

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Speaker 2: Tom McClintock, the congressman from Northern California at three o'clock.

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Speaker 2: So well, I got a minute. Let me play some

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Speaker 2: of the clips today because these are great.

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Speaker 1: This is now.

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Speaker 2: Zelensky was meeting with Trump and JD. Vance in the

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Speaker 2: Oval Office. It was televised. It was a press conference

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Speaker 2: and they were going to talk about a deal they

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Speaker 2: made to develop the mineral the mineral deposits in Ukraine,

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Speaker 2: very valuable rare earth minerals, and we were going.

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Speaker 1: To get a fifty to fifty deal.

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Speaker 2: We'd get some of the money back that we spent

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Speaker 2: on the war so far three hundred and fifty billion dollars,

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Speaker 2: and he'd be able to get some money to help

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Speaker 2: rebuild Ukraine. And this was going to be a precursor

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Speaker 2: to a peace agreement. This would be US making an investment,

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Speaker 2: and we'd want to protect the investment. And there's talk

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Speaker 2: of European country. He's supplying the actual military security. So

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Speaker 2: it was just step one. Uh, but Zelensky wants a

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Speaker 2: much more forceful promise of protection. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: he wants our troops if necessary, he wants a lot

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Speaker 2: more weapons, and Trump and Vance were really pissed off

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Speaker 2: by his resistance. Let's start with cut two.

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Speaker 4: A lot of questions. Let's start from the bigin sure

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Speaker 4: fills to wall. During the war, everybody has problems, even you,

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Speaker 4: But you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but

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Speaker 4: you will feel it in the fusion. Bless you, I'm blessed.

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Speaker 8: You're not.

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Speaker 10: Don't tell us what we're gonna feel. We're trying to

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Speaker 10: solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're going to feel.

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Speaker 4: I'm not telling you because you're in no position to dictate.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what you do.

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Speaker 10: You're in no position. Didn't dictate what we're going to feel.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna feel very good.

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Speaker 10: I feel we're gonna feel very.

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Speaker 4: Good and very strong influence.

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Speaker 10: You're right now, not in a very good position.

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Speaker 8: You've allowed you so to.

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Speaker 1: Be in a very bad position that he's able to

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Speaker 1: be right about the very beginning of the war.

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Speaker 10: Not in a good position. You don't have the cards

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Speaker 10: right now with us. You start having right now, you

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Speaker 10: don't wear spread. You're gambling with the lives of millions

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Speaker 10: of people.

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Speaker 3: See, you're gambling with world War three. You're gambling with

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Speaker 3: world War three. And what you're doing is very disrespectful

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Speaker 3: to the country. This country that's.

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Speaker 10: Back to you far more than a lot of people

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Speaker 10: said they should have.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's he was saying, well, you're going to

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Speaker 2: feel the impact of the war with Russia. In other words,

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Speaker 2: you better step up because this is going to harm

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Speaker 2: you one day. And Trump was having none of that.

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Speaker 2: It's they don't tell me, don't tell me what we're

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Speaker 2: gonna feel like cut number three because jd. Vance jumps

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Speaker 2: in here. He had enough. Something set him off, and

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Speaker 2: he kept demanding that Winsky thank Trump in America.

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Speaker 1: Have you said thank you once that time? No, in

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Speaker 1: this entire meeting that you said thank you.

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Speaker 9: You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October.

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Speaker 9: Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of

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Speaker 9: America and the president who's trying to save your country.

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Speaker 4: Please, you're seeing that if you will speak very loudly

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Speaker 4: about the war.

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Speaker 1: He's not speaking loudly.

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Speaker 10: He's not speaking loudly. Your country is in big trouble. No, No,

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Speaker 10: you've done a lot of talking. Your country is in

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Speaker 10: big trouble. I know you're not winning all You're not

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Speaker 10: winning this. You have a damn good chance. We coming

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Speaker 10: out okay because of the president.

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Speaker 4: We are staying Yawa country staying strong. From the very

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Speaker 4: beginning of the war, we've.

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Speaker 8: Been alone and we.

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Speaker 1: Are sankl I said, you haven't been giving it.

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Speaker 10: He gave you, stupid president, three hundred and fifty billion dollars.

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Speaker 10: You will, We gave you military equipment. You and you

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Speaker 10: met up brave, but they had to use our MELI

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Speaker 10: one of the best. If you didn't have our military equipment.

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Speaker 10: If you didn't have our military equipment, this war would

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Speaker 10: have been over in two weeks. In three days, I heard.

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Speaker 1: It from Putin in three days. This is how maybe

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Speaker 1: less in two weeks. Of course.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, it's gonna be a very hard thing to do

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Speaker 10: business like this.

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Speaker 6: I'm good.

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Speaker 1: Tell you to say thank you.

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Speaker 8: I said it.

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Speaker 1: All there except for America.

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Speaker 9: He except that there are disagreements, and let's go litigate

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Speaker 9: those disagreements rather than trying to.

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Speaker 1: Fight it out of the American media when you're wrong.

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Speaker 1: We know that you're wrong, but you.

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Speaker 10: See, I think it's good for the American people to

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Speaker 10: see what's going on. I think it's very important.

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Speaker 1: That's why I kept this going so long.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's awfully billigerate, because eventually he agrees, you're right.

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Speaker 2: If America didn't come in, Russia would have taken over

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Speaker 2: the entire country in about three days, and instead he's

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Speaker 2: held him off for three years with Russia grabbing a

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Speaker 2: piece of eastern Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: Let me see God, yeah, uh, let me play some

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Speaker 1: of this.

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Speaker 2: Trump is asked by a reporter what happens if Russia

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Speaker 2: breaks the ceasefire.

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Speaker 1: Play cut number.

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Speaker 7: Five breaks They said.

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Speaker 10: He what are you say?

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Speaker 1: She's asking?

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Speaker 9: What if Russia breaks the ceasefire?

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Speaker 1: Well, what if they? What if anything?

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Speaker 10: What if the bomb drops on your head right now?

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Speaker 4: Okay?

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Speaker 10: What if they broke it? I don't know. They broke

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Speaker 10: it with Biden because Biden didn't respect him. They didn't

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Speaker 10: respect Obama. They respect me. Let me tell you, Putin

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Speaker 10: went through a hell of a lot with me. He

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Speaker 10: went through a phony witch hunt where they used him

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Speaker 10: in Russia. Russia, Russia, Russia. You ever hear of that deal?

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Speaker 10: There was a phony. There was a phony Hunter Biden,

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Speaker 10: Joe Biden scam, Hillary Clinton, shifty Adam Schiff who was

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Speaker 10: a Democrat scam. And he had to go through that,

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Speaker 10: and he did go through it.

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Speaker 1: We didn't end up in a war. And he went

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Speaker 1: through it.

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Speaker 10: He was accused of all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: He had nothing to do with it.

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Speaker 10: It came out of Hunter Biden's bathroom. It came out

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Speaker 10: of Hunter Biden's bedroom.

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Speaker 2: It was disgusting.

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Speaker 10: And then they said, oh, oh, the laptop from Hell

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Speaker 10: was made by Russia, the fifty one agents. The whole

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Speaker 10: thing was a scam and he had to put up

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Speaker 10: with that he was being accused of all that stuff.

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Speaker 10: All I can say is this, he might have broken

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Speaker 10: deals with Obama and Bush, and he might have broken

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Speaker 10: them with Biden. He did maybe maybe he did. I

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Speaker 10: don't know what happened, but he didn't break them with me.

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Speaker 1: He wants to make a deal.

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Speaker 10: I don't know if you can make a deal. The

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Speaker 10: problem is I've empowered you to be a tough guy,

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Speaker 10: and I don't think you'd be a tough guy without

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Speaker 10: the United States, and your people are very brave. But

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Speaker 10: you're either going to make a deal or we're out.

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Speaker 10: And if we're out, you'll fight it out. I don't

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Speaker 10: think it's going to be pretty, but you'll fight it out.

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Speaker 10: But you don't have the cards. But once we signed that,

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Speaker 10: you're in a much better position. But you're not acting

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Speaker 10: at all thankful. And that's not a nice thing. I'll

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Speaker 10: be honest, that's not a nice thing.

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Speaker 8: All right.

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Speaker 10: I think we've seen enough. What do you think this

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Speaker 10: is gonna be great television?

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Speaker 1: I will say that, all right.

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