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Speaker 1: Coming up on Special repard President elect Trump officially sentenced

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Speaker 1: in New York to get this unconditional discharge. We break

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Speaker 1: down what that means with longtime Trump advisor Bruce Level and.

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles is up in flames and residents are demanding

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Speaker 2: a better response from elected officials. We'll discuss the shortcomings

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Speaker 2: of Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass.

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Speaker 3: And affinity groups from across the nation are planning mass

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Speaker 3: mobilization and resistance protests on January eighteenth and twenty eth

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Speaker 3: We'll break it all down for you all of that

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Speaker 3: and more right now on Special Report.

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Speaker 1: And welcome into Special Report. Happy Friday to all of you.

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Speaker 1: I'm Michelle Bachus alongside Bo Davidson, Emily Finn, and Tara

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Speaker 1: Doll And top headlines today, the devastating wildfires continue in

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Speaker 1: southern California, as at least ten people have now died

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Speaker 1: in thousands have evacuated the area.

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Speaker 2: As many as ten thousand structures have been destroyed between

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Speaker 2: the Coastal Palisades fire, which is now the most destructive

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Speaker 2: ever to hit Los Angeles County. Frustrated residents are continuing

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Speaker 2: to speak up about the massive failures of Newsom and

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Speaker 2: La Mayor Karen bass Ohner.

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Speaker 4: I live here, Governor, that.

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Speaker 5: Was my daughter's school.

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Speaker 4: Governor, please tell me what you're going to do.

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Speaker 6: But I'm not gonna hurt of my promise.

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Speaker 7: I'm literally talking to the President right now to specifically

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Speaker 7: answer the question of what we can do for you

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Speaker 7: and your daughter?

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Speaker 8: Can I hear it?

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Speaker 9: Can I hear your call?

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Speaker 5: Because I don't believe it.

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Speaker 7: Uh, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 10: There's literally I've tried five times.

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Speaker 7: That's why I'm walking around to make that.

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Speaker 11: Is the President not taking your call because it's.

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Speaker 12: Not going through.

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Speaker 10: Why I have to get self service.

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Speaker 9: Let's get it, let's get it.

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Speaker 13: I want to be here when you call the President.

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Speaker 10: I appreciate I'm doing that right now, and it's to

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Speaker 10: immediately get reimbursements, individual assistance, and to help John.

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Speaker 2: When that was pretty embarrassing. New Today, President ELEC. Trump

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Speaker 2: has received an unconditional discharge in his hush money case,

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Speaker 2: and that means no jail time, no fine, and no punishment.

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Speaker 3: Trump immediately took to truth social saying, quote, the radical

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Speaker 3: Democrats have lost another pathetic Unamerican witch hunt. After spending

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Speaker 3: tens of millions of dollars, wasting over six years of

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Speaker 3: obsessive work that should have been spent on protecting New

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Speaker 3: Yorkers from violent, rampant crime that is destroying the city

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Speaker 3: and state.

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Speaker 1: So, in other words, Judge Marshawn wasted everyone's time and

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Speaker 1: tax figure dollars. Well, for more on all of this,

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Speaker 1: let's bring in longtime senior Trump advisor and friend to

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Speaker 1: the show, Bruce Leavel. Bruce, thanks so much for joining

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Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks happing to me here.

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Speaker 14: Thank you all for having me.

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year, especially to you and snowy Atlanta. Right now, Bruce,

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Speaker 1: I want to get right into it. What was your

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Speaker 1: initial reaction to the sentencing.

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Speaker 9: Well, first of all, I'm.

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Speaker 14: A businessman here in Atlanta for over almost thirty years

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Speaker 14: fifth Avenue, especially in Manhattan, and we've been talking about

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Speaker 14: this for since this case started. You saw Kevin O'Leary

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Speaker 14: from Shark Tank come out there, and thank God for

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Speaker 14: will come out and speak against this travesty of what

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Speaker 14: we call a so called judicial system in New York

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Speaker 14: and testify saying what's the problem, you know, without any complaint.

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Speaker 14: There's a key word, and the prosecutor to go ahead

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Speaker 14: and run with this and then not to mention give

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Speaker 14: it to a rogue judge. And you know, it's just

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Speaker 14: like my friend Rudy said, you know, Rudy Giuliani said,

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Speaker 14: you know this pendulum it swings and you sit back silent,

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Speaker 14: and all the folks and folks that are watching this

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Speaker 14: agree with President Trump or the conservative votes, if you

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Speaker 14: want to use that term, this could be you. And

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Speaker 14: to sit silent and not say hey, wait a minute,

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Speaker 14: time out to allow this to go through is a

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Speaker 14: travesty on our republic because once again, this could be you.

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Speaker 14: And also too real quick imagine all the potential businesses

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Speaker 2: Well, Bruce, we are getting pretty close to the inauguration,

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Speaker 2: and at this point you think the Democrats will try

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Speaker 2: anything else to stop him or was this their last

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Speaker 9: No, I don't think so.

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Speaker 14: You know, listen, this is what we call a generational

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Speaker 14: It's gone on for many years, and finally the American

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Speaker 14: people were able to, thank God, elect the forty fifth president,

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Speaker 14: because once again, here's here's a key thing about President Trump.

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Speaker 14: He won't be time to pay the player special interest.

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Speaker 9: So for many.

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Speaker 14: Decades, our system has been infected on both sides of

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Speaker 14: the isle, respectfully, Republican and Democrat. This system has.

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Speaker 9: Gone on so long.

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Speaker 14: The answer your question, bo is, yes, they're going to

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Speaker 14: fight tooth and nail all the way up to the inauguration.

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Speaker 14: I said, stay tuned. You saw the five hundred million

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Speaker 14: as possible when President Trump comes into office, all because

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Speaker 14: they don't like him. And this is such a travesty

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Speaker 14: because once again it's on the back of the American

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Speaker 1: Well that's really where concerns me, Bruce, is how much

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Speaker 1: more desperate are than going to try to get And

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Speaker 1: it's interesting too, because many people talk about retaliation when

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Speaker 1: Trump gets into the White House, But I personally don't

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Speaker 1: think that's his plan. I think his plan was to

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Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, listen, they use that term he's going

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Speaker 14: to come back and retaliate. No, He's going to do

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Speaker 14: which gives us more, as to say, more power to

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Speaker 14: It's a great reformation. You younger folks right here watching this,

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Speaker 14: It's going to be better. And you see what happens

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Speaker 1: Well, I actually wanted to fall off on that bruce

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Speaker 1: because I was just having the same conversation. I think

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Speaker 8: What do you think?

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Speaker 14: I think you're absolutely right, And you know it's sad

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Speaker 14: once again. I have a lot of family members out

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Speaker 9: Need a woman, we need a man, we need a

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Speaker 14: Need a transferson, we need you know, instead of going

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like if the fire hydrant Bruce has DEI

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Speaker 2: Yeah, at least they got the flag painted on it. Well, Bruce,

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Speaker 2: why to get your your thought on this? Mark Zuckerberg

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Speaker 2: You think that Mark Zuckerberg violated constitutional law here and

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Speaker 8: Well, welcome back to special Reports.

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Speaker 3: There are at least ten people that have died and

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Speaker 3: The Palisades and Eaten fires now rank among the top

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Speaker 2: Now residents are placing blame on elected state officials for

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Speaker 8: Governor, you got a second governor, Governor, I live here.

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Speaker 4: Governor, that was my daughter's school.

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Speaker 1: Governor.

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Speaker 8: Please tell me what you're gonna do.

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Speaker 15: But I'm not gonna hurt.

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Speaker 2: On my promise.

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Speaker 7: I'm literally talking to the President right now to specifically

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Speaker 11: Can I hear it?

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Speaker 9: Can I hear your call?

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Speaker 5: Because I don't believe it.

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Speaker 8: Why is the President not taking your call?

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Speaker 10: Because it's not going through?

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Speaker 7: Why I have to get self service?

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Speaker 8: Let's get it, let's get it.

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Speaker 9: I want to be here when you call the President.

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Speaker 10: I appreciate I'm doing that right now, and it's to

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Speaker 2: Should we want to welcome in author and writer at

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Speaker 2: Is is it time that Californians finally voted out Gavin Newsom.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, I think, if anything, these wildfires show that the

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Speaker 16: the warning signs for this wildfire have been there for

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Speaker 8: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: And it's not just Newsome that's facing a lot of

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Speaker 3: Instead of actually reading the url address, she just said,

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Speaker 18: Far chiefs say that they're really stretched to the limit

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Speaker 18: by millions of dollars? Madam Beare have you nothing to

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Speaker 3: I mean, nothing but silence and a blank stare. Cheryl,

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Speaker 3: what is your reaction to this? Is this just incompetence

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Speaker 16: It is, But it's so outrageous because that's just arrogance

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and all this criticism of bass Newsom is just

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Speaker 2: Do you think that this latest mismanagement of the fires

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Speaker 16: I would love to say yes, right, and common sense

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Speaker 16: Or is this the final straw, the final death now

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Speaker 3: Cheryl, we are running out of time with you here.

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Speaker 3: So much more that I want to discuss, but I

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Speaker 8: I mean, is now the time to announce that he's

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Speaker 15: No?

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Speaker 16: But look, you know, Joe Biden has been tone deaf

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely, Cheryl.

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Speaker 3: I think we're going to see some big change over

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Speaker 3: the next four years. Thank you so much for joining

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Speaker 3: the show.

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Speaker 9: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Coming up yesterday was Law Enforcement Appreciation Day and we

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Speaker 3: are going to honor our men and women in blue

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Speaker 8: Hero Victor of the Love will be back in just

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Speaker 12: Stay with us, lacing up foods, fools, strapping on this,

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Speaker 19: We do, we kiss our families that by five week ago,

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Speaker 9: Only the Good Lord knows. If we take that last call,

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Speaker 20: Fall home, left line, because that's what we do. We

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Speaker 17: For you.

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Speaker 9: Don't know the price were sacrifice.

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Speaker 2: We will.

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Speaker 9: We'll hold that line.

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Speaker 15: Welcome back to Special Report yesterday with Law Enforcement Appreciation Day,

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Speaker 15: and that was the song from Deputy Sheriff turn music

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Speaker 5: Victor Avalot.

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Speaker 15: Both of you guys, thank you so much for taking

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Speaker 5: What inspired you to write that song?

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Speaker 6: That's correct? This is my twentieth year as a deputy sheriff.

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Speaker 6: I've been pretty much hitting the music pretty hard the

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Speaker 9: For sure.

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Speaker 6: I felt like we got kicked in the butt a

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Speaker 6: little bit.

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Speaker 9: Back in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 6: So just say here, just here, and if you ords

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Speaker 6: and new Lyrics and with the Nashville and for that song.

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Speaker 15: It's such a great song, and we need songs like

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Speaker 15: that because we are having such.

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Speaker 5: Low morale in our law enforcement.

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Speaker 15: Recruiting numbers are down, which we'll get to later on

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Speaker 15: in the show, but I want to ask you too

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Speaker 15: before we move on. You know, we're watching these devastating

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Speaker 15: Los Angeles fires burn thousands of home with over one

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Speaker 15: hundred and thirty thousand evacuations, and you see these firefighters

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Speaker 15: out there and they have limited resources, and we have

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Speaker 15: to just honor them with yesterday, you know, being an

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Speaker 15: appreciation day. They're doing incredible work under very difficult circumstances,

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Speaker 15: aren't they.

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Speaker 6: Chris, Absolutely, I wouldn't want their job right now, and

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Speaker 6: the two days of they own. I know that, you know,

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Speaker 6: all the first responders in California are probably working really

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Speaker 6: hard twenty four to seven and hopefully they can get

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Speaker 6: that contained.

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Speaker 9: It's awful, devastating, but it just goes to.

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Speaker 15: Show, I mean, how much we do have to honor

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Speaker 15: them and appreciate what they're doing, sacrificing their families, being

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Speaker 15: on shifts, twenty four hour shifts, not getting any time

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Speaker 15: to take a break. But there is also then, you know,

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Speaker 15: we have to address to the alarming dangers of DEI

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Speaker 15: policies that we're watching right before our eyes. With the

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Speaker 15: Los Angeles Fire Department, you have the assistant chief touting

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Speaker 15: that she is being you know, the first female leader,

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Speaker 15: but the pressing question is does she have the capability

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Speaker 15: to meet the demands of the job. I mean, DEI

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Speaker 15: is proving to be not only just costly, but absolutely

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Speaker 15: deadly as we are witnessing with the lives, the homes,

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Speaker 15: and the livelihoods being destroyed in real time across California. So, Victor,

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Speaker 15: I just want to ask you, do you believe this

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Speaker 15: catastrophic failure will actually serve as a wake up call

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Speaker 15: for law enforcement and emergency agencies to return to merit

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Speaker 15: based hiring once again?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, Terah, and I think that not only the first responders,

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Speaker 4: but the citizens are learning, unfortunately a very very hard

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Speaker 4: way here a lesson that we don't care Americans, regular Americans,

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Speaker 4: don't care who responds to go rescue them. We want

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Speaker 4: a dial in nine one one, and we want a

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Speaker 4: first responder there. We're not gonna care what the color

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Speaker 4: of skin is, what their gender is. We want them

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Speaker 4: to be first of all, highly qualified.

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Speaker 9: And by the way, this goes all.

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Speaker 4: The way from law enforcement to our teachers and many

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Speaker 4: other aspects in the public and private sector.

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Speaker 9: It doesn't really matter.

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Speaker 4: And I think, unfortunately, one of the things you know,

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Speaker 4: I try to focus on at least uh that maybe

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Speaker 4: might be a little bit more positive is here, is

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Speaker 4: that maybe all this is going to help us and

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Speaker 4: at least in the in the California region realize that,

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Speaker 4: in fact we have the Left has pushed this just

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Speaker 4: too far, and they're there and they're learning a very

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Speaker 4: hard lesson. But then I think it might be a

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Speaker 4: turning point where things will change for the better.

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Speaker 13: Yeah.

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Speaker 15: Absolutely, I think that's an excellent point, because if this

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Speaker 15: doesn't wake people up to just how dangerous those DEI policies.

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Speaker 5: Are, I don't know what will.

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Speaker 15: But Victor, I want to ask you kind of switch

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Speaker 15: gears here to the affinity groups that are planning inauguration

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Speaker 15: protest in DC. They're planning these protests across ten major

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Speaker 15: US cities, but not only on the twentieth, but January eighteenth,

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Speaker 15: and that's kind of it sounds like it looks like

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Speaker 15: it's going to be a dry run for these groups.

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Speaker 15: I mean, you look at cities at Chicago.

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Speaker 5: New York, also Michigan.

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Speaker 15: It is going to be across the Seattle as one

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Speaker 15: of them, Los Angeles. But how concerned are you about

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Speaker 15: these resistance groups and then also overlaying that with the

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Speaker 15: illegal immigrants that are in the United States and then

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Speaker 15: using the mass deportations kind of as a catalyst to

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Speaker 15: spark these protests.

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Speaker 9: I think this is.

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Speaker 4: Very concerning, and I know that our law enforcement partners

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Speaker 4: at every level of the federal and local and state

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Speaker 4: government are going to be on top of this because

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Speaker 4: we have these groups in our country supporting not what

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Speaker 4: the American overwhelming American people ask for, and what did

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Speaker 4: they ask for?

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Speaker 17: And they asked for.

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Speaker 4: Public safety, they asked for our economy to be better.

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Speaker 4: These are our concerns that everyone should share. But for

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Speaker 4: some reason, these groups, these are the real groups that

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Speaker 4: I think we should be concerned about that. I think

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Speaker 4: that depriminent of justice has not been and focus in

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Speaker 4: the last several years. Therefore, they have given them the

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Speaker 4: kind of the free for all to go out there

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Speaker 4: and form these groups to challenge what has been a

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Speaker 4: very democratic process that we all want it. And it

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Speaker 4: is very concerning to me that they want to spoil

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Speaker 4: or in fact go further than spoil and cause some

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Speaker 4: kind of disruption on President Trump's inauguration, even maybe even

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Speaker 4: before the twenty eeth So I hope that and I

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Speaker 4: know that our partners at every level are going to

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Speaker 4: be right on top of this, so hopefully identify who

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Speaker 4: these individuals are. But what I want to see here, Tara,

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Speaker 4: is some consequences of these people. I want to see

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Speaker 4: them be arrested and identified to show the American people

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Speaker 4: that these are the people responsible from keeping us from

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Speaker 4: making our country better.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and consequence.

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Speaker 15: And it says we haven't seen any we haven't seen

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Speaker 15: any prosecutions at all for any kind of illegal acts,

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Speaker 15: especially crossing our border. But I mean, we need cops

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Speaker 15: now in law enforcement more than ever, and for the

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Speaker 15: very reason which we just talked about these planned protests

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Speaker 15: that are going to be across the nation. The ex

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Speaker 15: NYPD commissioner is raising the alarm on the need for

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Speaker 15: more cops in order to crack down on the subway

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Speaker 15: crime that we've been seeing in New York City, saying

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Speaker 15: that there were thousands more officers when he was first

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Speaker 15: in charge in the nineteen nineties, and according to recent data,

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Speaker 15: there has been a fifty five percent decline in the

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Speaker 15: number of candidates taking the test to join the NYPD.

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Speaker 15: That is extremely alarming when they need cops more than ever,

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Speaker 15: but it's plunging by more than half in the past

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Speaker 15: eight years. So New York City needs to hire sixteen

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Speaker 15: hundred more officers, but people are not interested and for

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Speaker 15: good reasons. So I want to ask you, Victor, and

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Speaker 15: then Chris too, to comment, just how can we get

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Speaker 15: that resurgence and people again wanting to be cops.

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Speaker 4: I think it's going to change, and I think actually

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Speaker 4: the morale is changing. Morale from the federal government all

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Speaker 4: the way to the local police departments. Are you going

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Speaker 4: to see a resurgence, a positive one of people wanting

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Speaker 4: to come back into this force and this public surface.

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Speaker 4: And let me tell you, I've traveled the last four

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Speaker 4: years around the country, and I can tell you that

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Speaker 4: every single police department that I have visited are short

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Speaker 4: on police officers. From Savannah, Georgia, Austin, Texas, San Antonio, Dallas, California,

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Speaker 4: and Colorado, they all are running deficits in their personnel.

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Speaker 4: And because it takes me back to when I went

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Speaker 4: to college and got my college degree in criminal justice

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Speaker 4: about how important numbers of police officers do make a difference.

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Speaker 4: So more police officers are a good thing in our communities.

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Speaker 4: I know Chris understands that very and I know Chris,

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Speaker 4: we always want more backup when people ask us do

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Speaker 4: you want more personnel?

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Speaker 17: Of course, we do.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes that takes time to put people through the process.

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Speaker 4: But let me tell you, I am getting the feeling

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Speaker 4: at the local level here and now in the last

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Speaker 4: month or so of that change and momentum that the

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Speaker 4: people are going to want to come back into this field.

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Speaker 5: That's good.

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Speaker 15: How about you, Chris, We only have about forty seconds left.

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Speaker 9: Yeah. I agree with Victor. I think that it starts

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Speaker 9: at the White House.

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Speaker 6: I think that now that people have faith that we

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Speaker 6: have a president that supports law and order, I think

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Speaker 6: that that has uplifted a lot of the people that

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Speaker 6: I know. And I think that if we keep, you know,

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Speaker 6: uplifting the spirits along, we're fitting and appreciate and understand that.

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Speaker 6: You know, we need these people out here. We need

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Speaker 6: more people, well trained people, more training, and I think

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Speaker 6: it's just going to be a better twenty twenty five

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Speaker 6: for sure.

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Speaker 15: Well thanks, both of you guys are true patriots.

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Speaker 5: We honor your service. Thank you, have a great weekend.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, Thank you well.

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Speaker 15: Coming up our own, Brian Glenn joins us to delve

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Speaker 15: into the top stories of the day.

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Speaker 8: We'll be right back.

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Speaker 5: And welcome back to Special Reports.

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Speaker 1: It has been a busy Friday, from President like Trump

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Speaker 1: being sentenced in New York this morning to the wildfires

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Speaker 1: that continue burning in southern California. Well, here to give

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Speaker 1: us the latest on all of this and break it

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Speaker 1: down as our very own Brian Glenn. Brian, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us on this Friday.

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Speaker 9: Hey, happy Friday, everybody.

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Speaker 8: Thanks for having happy Friday.

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Speaker 1: So, Brian, I want to get your opinion first. What

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Speaker 1: is your overall feeling about wan Ershan having the sentencing

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Speaker 1: ten days before Trump takes office.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, it's kind of it's pathetic actually, And you know,

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Speaker 17: like President Trump had a great truth social this was

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Speaker 17: a sham of a trial. It should have never happened.

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Speaker 17: You know, nobody wanted to touch this case except for one person,

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Speaker 17: and that's Alvin Bragg. And it was all political. In

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Speaker 17: the end, the American people won. And you and I

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Speaker 17: both know that even if President Trump was sitting in

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Speaker 17: a jail cell right now, he would have to click

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Speaker 17: on the zoom link that the American people give him

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Speaker 17: to swear him in on January twentieth, he would have

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Speaker 17: been the president regardless if he was down at Mar

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Speaker 17: A Lago right now, are sitting in a jail cell

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Speaker 17: in Rikers Island, the people spoke on the fifth and

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Speaker 17: of course, I think this will go down in history

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Speaker 17: as one of the greatest weaponizations of our justice Department ever.

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Speaker 17: And I think there is I think people will you

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Speaker 17: have to to there'll be some consequences to what has

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Speaker 17: happened in the state of New York.

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Speaker 2: Y' let's talk about that. That's a great segue to

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Speaker 2: my next question, because you mentioned that Trump took a

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Speaker 2: victory lap on this news posting on truth Social about

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Speaker 2: the unconditional discharge, and he makes a valid point that

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Speaker 2: while they were criminalizing him on a hush money racked

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Speaker 2: up misdemeanor, the people of New York endured senseless crime.

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Speaker 2: It was a waste of tax dollars. But ultimately Brian

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Speaker 2: new Yorker's voted in Alvin Bragg and Letitia James. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: my question is is do New Yorkers I hate to

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Speaker 2: put the blame on them, but do they bear some

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Speaker 2: blame for this for putting those folks in office?

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Speaker 17: They do, And you know, and I know that we're

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Speaker 17: going to talk about this here in a few minutes.

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Speaker 9: Just like the people and in.

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Speaker 17: Southern California bear the blame of electing those public officials

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Speaker 17: into office. Look, you know, bad leadership results in bad policies,

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Speaker 17: which result in a lot of bad things, And it

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Speaker 17: just so happened. The man you're looking at right now,

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Speaker 17: in my opinion, is personally responsible for what has happened

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Speaker 17: to the state of California. That is not the state

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Speaker 17: that I lived in years ago at all. And of

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Speaker 17: course all of the failed water management goes down to

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Speaker 17: the fire department, the city council decisions that they've made,

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Speaker 17: the District attorney there in Los Angeles, Gasstone, the mistakes

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Speaker 17: that he's made, not locking up criminals, not really enforcing

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Speaker 17: the law, which is caused that community to go in chaos.

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Speaker 17: So both Yeah, so New York took California. The people

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Speaker 17: are ultimately responsible for what happens in their state, and

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Speaker 17: now is the time they can change it. And we've

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Speaker 17: got elections, and elections do have consequences. We found out

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Speaker 17: what happens in twenty twenty. So if people in New

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Speaker 17: York just wise up and get put politics aside and

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Speaker 17: just do what's best for the people with safety, law

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Speaker 17: and order, I think we can turn those two states around.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Bran, I'm really happy that you brought up everything

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Speaker 3: that's going on on the West coast right now. And

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Speaker 3: I'm actually going to add one name to that list

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Speaker 3: of people you're mentioning. La Mayor Karen Bass has been

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Speaker 3: an absolute disaster. She definitely has some blame on her

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Speaker 3: here too for everything that's going on. But Trump has

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Speaker 3: been very critical of the California Democrat leaders and how

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Speaker 3: they're handling this response to the Los Angeles fires. What

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Speaker 3: are you hearing that he's expected to do to help

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Speaker 3: once he takes office in just a matter of days.

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Speaker 17: Well, this is what's going to be a really interesting

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Speaker 17: situation hearing about. You know what, he takes office in

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Speaker 17: the twentieth the state of California is going to have

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Speaker 17: to ask for federal deals. There's no way they can

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Speaker 17: bail themselves out. Mind you, California is the fifth largest

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Speaker 17: economy in the world, not the States, the world. They

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Speaker 17: have a massive tax situation there. They have a lot

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Speaker 17: of revenue and a lot of industry, but they cannot

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Speaker 17: handle what has happened to their states. So the negotiation

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Speaker 17: between President Trump and Gaven Newsom in the state of

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Speaker 17: California is going to be really interesting. I don't know

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Speaker 17: how that plays out, but maybe this is the incident

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Speaker 17: right now. Unfortunately, that will wake up many in southern

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Speaker 17: California and across the whole entire state to take a

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Speaker 17: better look at who's guiding that that state, which, by

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Speaker 17: the way, Karen Bass requested a forty eight point eight

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Speaker 17: million dollar reduction in the fire department. They had to

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Speaker 17: basically can close I think sixteen fire departments across La County,

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Speaker 17: which is one in every person's district on the city council. There,

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Speaker 17: she is right there, while while California was burning down,

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Speaker 17: she was over in Africa passing out beads and and

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Speaker 17: and really not. I think she ran away.

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Speaker 9: From the situation.

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Speaker 17: I don't think she wanted to be on the ground.

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Speaker 17: It's inexcusable for the state like California to have the

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Speaker 17: fifth largest economy to have no water pressure in the

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Speaker 17: fire hydrants, or some fire hydrants had no water at all.

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Speaker 17: They ten years ago they had a proposition to build

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Speaker 17: these giant reservoirs to reclaim a snow melt and rain

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Speaker 17: water where those never got built. So it has been

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Speaker 17: a taxpayer nightmare there in the state of California. This

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Speaker 17: has to change because let me tell you something. And

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Speaker 17: President Trump talked.

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Speaker 9: About this the other day at mar A Lago.

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Speaker 17: If he loses the very wealthy tax base and that

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Speaker 17: he gets the income from in that state, they move out.

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Speaker 17: I don't know where the revenue comes from.

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Speaker 9: For the state, and they will go broke.

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Speaker 17: So they need to have some big changes to keep

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Speaker 17: the wealthy Silicon Valley and all the other companies that

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Speaker 17: call California You're home. You got to keep them there

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Speaker 17: because if they leave, they're done.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: And I'll tell you what, Brian.

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Speaker 1: We're already seeing it on social media, a lot of

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Speaker 1: these wealthy the elites stepping forward and saying this is

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Speaker 1: messed up with this leadership going on. It's unfortunate, though,

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Speaker 1: that something so tragic like this has to happen for

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Speaker 1: people to wake up. I do want to shift gears

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Speaker 1: real quick. This is pretty big, Brian. It happened today.

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Speaker 1: It's a big I told you so a moment as

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Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg admits to censoring information on Facebook or Meta

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Speaker 1: and then let's.

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Speaker 8: Take it a step further.

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Speaker 1: The company also announces the rollback of their DEI programs. So, Brian,

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you what Ultimately, do you think

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Speaker 1: led them to realize, well, DI doesn't work.

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Speaker 15: I don't know.

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Speaker 17: You know, they realized that the fact checking really was

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Speaker 17: not popular, and they realized they got it wrong on

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Speaker 17: so many subjects like COVID, the vaccine, the election, a

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Speaker 17: lot of things they were completely wrong on. But you know,

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Speaker 17: I think it also comes down to you know, he

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Speaker 17: went down tomorrow Algo, he spent some time with President Trump,

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Speaker 17: and I'm sure that President Trump, with all his wisdom

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Speaker 17: that he has in the business world, told him, look,

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Speaker 17: this doesn't work. Here are the best people. I don't

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Speaker 17: care if we have you know, a female lesbian. I

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Speaker 17: don't care what the gender, the sexuality. I don't care

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Speaker 17: as long as people are in place to do their

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Speaker 17: jobs and they're the best at that job. I don't

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Speaker 17: think at the end of the day, people don't care

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Speaker 17: what skin color you have, but what gender you identify

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Speaker 17: as we want competent people in their positions, and so

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Speaker 17: Mark Zuckerberg just realizes, maybe that's the best hiring model.

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Speaker 17: Scratch off checking the boxes and just hire the best people.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and Trump has an amazing ability to you know,

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Speaker 2: persuade people. So I think that's showing his genius. Thank

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Speaker 2: you Brian, Thanks Brian, Thank you guys, appreciate it coming out.

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Speaker 2: More than one hundred and fifty million people use TikTok

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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Special Report on this beautiful Friday today.

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Speaker 2: Oral argument Scott underway in the case regarding whether TikTok,

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Speaker 2: the viral video based app on social media, should be

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Speaker 2: banned in the interest of national security. That's right.

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Speaker 3: Approximately one hundred and seventy million Americans use TikTok and

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Speaker 3: consider it a pillar of free speech.

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Speaker 8: The Biden administration.

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Speaker 3: Backs a law that would force the app to cut

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Speaker 3: ties with Chin, arguing that the data collection can be

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Speaker 3: used to manipulate content and shape public opinion.

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Speaker 1: For more on this perspective, we turned to famous TikToker

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Speaker 1: and our friend Conservative and and thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining Special Report today.

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Speaker 9: Thanks for having me again.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys, of course, So and tell us how

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Speaker 1: you see this issue.

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Speaker 9: Look, it's an important issue. We've talked about it before.

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Speaker 13: I think that social media is a huge part and

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Speaker 13: what's shaped this election and the information that.

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Speaker 9: Gets out to Americans.

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Speaker 13: You know, TikTok is a little bit of a different realm.

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Speaker 13: I myself had two videos come down today, so I

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Speaker 13: think that.

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Speaker 9: They need to what were they so they did.

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Speaker 13: Restore it because I threatened them with a good time,

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Speaker 13: But yes, they did come down today, And I think

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Speaker 13: that they need to really work on this, you know,

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Speaker 13: this free speech yeah thing that we have going on

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Speaker 13: right now.

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Speaker 9: I mean you have Donald Trump, Elon Musk, now Meta.

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Speaker 13: And Jeff Bezos, who's all been to mar A Lago,

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Speaker 13: they've all talked, they've all met, and mister Wonderful, I

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Speaker 13: mean that's another great one that has a lot of

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Speaker 13: money and he knows a lot about business. So when

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Speaker 13: they're really striving on free speech, I think TikTok needs

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Speaker 13: to kind of wake up. I think a lot of

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Speaker 13: their you know, their algorithms are set on AI. I

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Speaker 13: think trolls run their app. I've seen a lot of

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Speaker 13: great conservative content creators come down just this week alone,

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Speaker 13: so you know, there's a lot that needs to be

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Speaker 13: worked out, but I think that it's definitely a good platform.

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Speaker 2: Well, and it seemed like, you know, Donald Trump was

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Speaker 2: very much for a ban on TikTok in his first administration,

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Speaker 2: or at least a for sale of it, and then

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Speaker 2: somehow the tide of content on TikTok turned very republican

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Speaker 2: and kind of pro maga and now he's changed his

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Speaker 2: tune a bit. So, firstly, how did TikTok kind of

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Speaker 2: turn into a new conservative social media app? Do you think?

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Speaker 9: So?

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Speaker 13: I will say it has not been a new social

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Speaker 13: media app for conservatives. We've been doing this strong for

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Speaker 13: about four and a half five years.

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Speaker 9: We've just kind of come more so to the forefront.

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Speaker 17: Now.

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Speaker 13: I think that Donald Trump's son had a huge part

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Speaker 13: in it because he's part of the young generation that

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Speaker 13: does use social media a lot. He's like, yo, Dad,

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Speaker 13: you got to check these people out. So I think

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Speaker 13: that's super important. But I think that a lot of

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Speaker 13: people are just kind of tired of legacy media and

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Speaker 13: they're tired of getting their news from the television in

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Speaker 13: a lot of situations, so they go to social media.

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Speaker 17: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: I feel like in the lead up to the twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty election, social media was just so woke, and Republicans

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Speaker 3: usually got their content from the legacy media, from watching TV,

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Speaker 3: from reading newspapers and stuff, and.

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Speaker 8: Now that has changed so much.

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Speaker 3: I just feel like there's been a lot of flip

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Speaker 3: flopping going on here. It's interesting that the Biden administration

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Speaker 3: is now for the ban of TikTok, citing national security.

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Speaker 3: But do you think it's actually national security that they're

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Speaker 3: worried about, or the fact that one hundred and seventy

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Speaker 3: million young people might be swayed to move more Republican.

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Speaker 8: I mean, especially if they're viewing your.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, that part the second part.

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Speaker 13: So I think, uh, I think that they got they

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Speaker 13: got worried, because there are a lot of people that

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Speaker 13: have come forward and they're like, listen, I'm not scared

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Speaker 13: to speak on my politics anymore.

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Speaker 9: I am a conservative. I support Donald Trump.

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Speaker 13: Donald Trump got so many followers, you guys, in a

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Speaker 13: matter of hours, millions of people in a matter of

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Speaker 13: hours on TikTok.

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Speaker 9: So I think that they did get scared.

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Speaker 13: Look, we live in a world where if I talk

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Speaker 13: to somebody in my house that ad comes up already

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Speaker 13: on any social media platform. As somebody who I call

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Speaker 13: myself a zenial, I'm kind of in between a gen

886
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Speaker 13: X and millennial, I don't mind it.

887
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Speaker 9: I don't mind if an AD comes up.

888
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Speaker 13: I already know that they're listening to us already. So

889
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Speaker 13: what more as an average American? Can they really you

890
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Speaker 13: know what I mean? Can China really get for me?

891
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Speaker 13: I mean, they'd be pretty bored with us, average normal people.

892
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Speaker 13: But yeah, I think it's I think they're just scared

893
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Speaker 13: because a lot of the cool social media content creators

894
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Speaker 13: that happen to be conservative have come to the forefront

895
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Speaker 13: and they've kind of stolen Joe Biden's thunder and Trump

896
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Speaker 13: took over.

897
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Speaker 1: Well, maybe people are just waking up and realizing that

898
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: conservatives are actually cool and we're funny. Case in point, Well, yeah,

899
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Speaker 1: and you know, I'm looking at these stats right now.

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00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: Fifteen million followers real Donald Trump, one point four billion views.

901
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 1: He quite literally surpassed Taylor Swift, who is allegedly so

902
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,760
Speaker 1: so popular. So that speaks volumes in and of itself.

903
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Speaker 1: But you know, the nitty gritty of this case states

904
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Speaker 1: that TikTok is an American company, but it's algorithm, which

905
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Speaker 1: is so important to the content curation, is provided by Byteedance,

906
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: a Chinese company. So the force of sale would be

907
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 1: to curtail the first amendment right of TikTok. And there

908
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: are some business owners who would clearly lose revenue if

909
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Speaker 1: they can't use TikTok to advertise, specifically small businesses. So

910
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Speaker 1: would a ban be devastating to a number of business

911
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Speaker 1: owners in your own opinion.

912
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Speaker 13: Yeah, one, I think that a lot of people have

913
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 13: a lot of small businesses have flourished from places like TikTok.

914
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Speaker 13: I personally have things in my cart in my TikTok

915
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Speaker 13: shop KRT right now.

916
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Speaker 9: It's super easy.

917
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Speaker 1: Oh, I buy so much from TikTok shop.

918
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 18: I do.

919
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Speaker 13: It's super easy to scroll as again a generation that

920
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 13: comes from you know QBC where the kids of QVC parents,

921
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 13: it's super easy for me and I kind of I

922
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:34,800
Speaker 13: kind of like people selling me stuff.

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Speaker 9: Sorry, but yes.

924
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Speaker 13: It's devastating, especially because we do want to support small

925
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 13: business people have made a living now staying home and

926
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Speaker 13: creating products and selling products. So this is definitely a

927
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Speaker 13: devastating thing. Look, my opinion is this is not fact.

928
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 13: I think with all these big guys that are up

929
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 13: here talking about working together, I think that free speech

930
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,320
Speaker 13: will end up coming back.

931
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Speaker 9: To TikTok platform.

932
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Speaker 13: I know everybody wants to say that it's free speech,

933
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Speaker 13: but from personal experience, conservatives do get censored on TikTok

934
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Speaker 13: right now.

935
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Speaker 9: But I think that once they realize that.

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Speaker 13: They're gonna lose a lot of money TikTok itself if

937
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Speaker 13: they get rid of the platform from the United States,

938
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Speaker 13: I think that they'll probably work with us to see

939
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Speaker 13: if they can keep it.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm wondering because Trump has said that he

941
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Speaker 2: can save TikTok. He said it, and he's asking the

942
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Speaker 2: Supreme Court to pause this law that would ban it.

943
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Speaker 2: Do you have any thoughts on how he might be

944
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 2: able to save it while also protecting these these natural

945
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 2: fears of national security threats. There's got to be some balance, right, And.

946
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Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely has to be some balance.

947
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Speaker 13: I think that Donald Trump has been doing an amazing

948
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,800
Speaker 13: job of kind of bridging that gap.

949
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Speaker 9: Look, he's gotten.

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Speaker 13: Zuckerberg at Marlago, He's gotten people that were, you know,

951
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 13: against him at first, and I think that he's doing

952
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 13: a really good job of playing so called big brother,

953
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 13: where you have to kind of shake hands across the island,

954
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 13: just kind of be friends with people to come up

955
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Speaker 13: with a solution. Look at how he was talking with

956
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Speaker 13: Obama the other day, and it looked like they were

957
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 13: having a blast together. They probably don't agree on a lot,

958
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 13: which we know that already, but sometimes you have to

959
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 13: come across and you have to talk about things to

960
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Speaker 13: get things done.

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Speaker 9: And I think that Donald Trump is the master at that.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, certainly, I think we all would agree with you

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Speaker 8: on that.

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Speaker 3: But let's play a hypothetical game here, right. If it's

965
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Speaker 3: the worst case scenario TikTok is banned or forced to

966
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Speaker 3: be sold, surely you would be impacted by that, as

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Speaker 3: with a lot of other influencers. So what's your advice.

968
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Speaker 3: What would you do if that happened?

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Speaker 8: Would you focus on Instagram other social media?

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Speaker 15: Yeah?

971
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Speaker 13: So I always tell people, Look, I've started doing this

972
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Speaker 13: a few years ago. You know, never just solely keep

973
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 13: yourself on one platform. If you really want your voice heard,

974
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Speaker 13: it's important to spread your message on multiple platforms. I

975
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 13: started doing that, and you know, building Instagram and building

976
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Speaker 13: X and building true social and other platforms like that.

977
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Speaker 13: I would say, listen, guys, I think every day that

978
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 13: the platform is gone. And I know it's like a

979
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 13: fight or flight thing, but it's really not. Just assume

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00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 13: that you have different followers, because you really do on

981
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Speaker 13: different platforms.

982
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Speaker 9: Spread your message that way.

983
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Speaker 13: Post what you post on TikTok all over every platform.

984
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Speaker 13: Get your voice heard, get your message out, and get

985
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Speaker 13: your business out. I think that once you do that

986
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Speaker 13: and use TikTok to tell people you're going someplace else, guys,

987
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 13: now that it's up. Build your platforms by telling people

988
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 13: use TikTok. Say hey, I'm going to Instagram. Go find

989
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 13: me on Instagram. And your followers, if they love you,

990
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 13: they'll follow.

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Speaker 2: Whether TikTok makes it past January nineteenth or not. What

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Speaker 2: do you see in the next let's just say four

993
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Speaker 2: years as being something that may rise to the form,

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00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 2: become even perhaps more popular, or increase in popularity. Where

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Speaker 2: are you seeing where would you be wanting to post?

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Speaker 13: You know, I might get hate for this, but I

997
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 13: actually really like Instagram and the reason why you do

998
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 13: like meta. The reason why I like meta is when

999
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 13: you block somebody, they block that person and all the

1000
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 13: IP addresses that are connected to that phone, so you

1001
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 13: won't really get spammed by troll accounts that mass report you.

1002
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Speaker 13: So I really do like Meta for that reason, because

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Speaker 13: AI and trolls really do run the TikTok.

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Speaker 9: Platform, and to me it's no So I do love TikTok.

1005
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Speaker 13: I will continue to lose it, use it, lose it,

1006
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:31,560
Speaker 13: use it as long as it's with us. But Instagram

1007
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 13: for me, Meta, you know, love him or hate him,

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Speaker 13: He's got a good class though.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well you may be right there. You're certainly a

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Speaker 3: riot on TikTok. Everyone go follow Conservative Van. Thank you

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Speaker 3: so much for your insight and hope this all works

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Speaker 3: out for you and all the TikTokers.

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Speaker 2: Thanks guys, and coming up next you won't want to

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Speaker 2: miss war Room stick around, have a great weekend, and

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Speaker 2: we'll see you back here at four pm on Monday

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Speaker 2: for special report