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Speaker 1: That's the podcast. We have been playing clips earlier in

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Speaker 1: the hour, and we'll play some more about Alex Padilla

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Speaker 1: because he can't leave his stunt alone. He made a

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Speaker 1: creating a big disruption, and that was just what a

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Speaker 1: day or two before the shootings in Minnesota. People are

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Speaker 1: the unhinged. People who live right on the edge of

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Speaker 1: Padilla today, of course, goes on the Senate floor and

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Speaker 1: But there's another guy who tried to one up that stunt,

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Speaker 1: and he's running for mayor of New York. His name

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Speaker 1: is Brad Lander. Now, the favorite in the mayor's race,

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Speaker 1: would you believe, is Andrew Cuomo, the former governor resigned

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Speaker 1: He's the New York City comptroller. A comptroller is in

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Speaker 1: got arrested today federal agents at an immigration courthouse in

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Speaker 1: through Joe Biden's phony programs. Joe Biden set up a

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Speaker 1: temporary protection. Trump has rescinded all those phony programs and saying, no,

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Speaker 1: you're here illegally. We're going to find you and throw

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Speaker 1: want to storm into people's homes. Right, everybody's screaming, can't

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Speaker 1: for you to come onto federal property to the courthouse

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Speaker 1: So Lander, apparently, according to the Apartment of Homeland Security,

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Speaker 2: Another way.

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Speaker 1: Show the judicial warrant?

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Speaker 3: Where is it?

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Speaker 1: Sorry one alien me? Please take that? Take that back?

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Speaker 1: Where are you taking the controller to jail? Why are

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Speaker 4: And where are you taking him?

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Speaker 1: Hang on with number one? Hold on?

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Speaker 4: Hello, where are you taking him?

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Speaker 1: No? This is just too good this stuff, So Lander said,

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Speaker 1: It's a public space. That's why ICE is doing this.

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Speaker 1: So Lander and that annoying lady who is yelling hello,

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Speaker 1: It's not his business. He doesn't write federal law. He

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Speaker 1: So you know, now he's giving statements to the press

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Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from kf I

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Speaker 1: Let me let me play for you some Alex Padilla stuff,

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Speaker 1: because you don't get these chances too many times in life.

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Speaker 1: So now he instead of just crawling away and hoping

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Speaker 1: a big chunk here of his address as he recounts

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Speaker 5: You're seeing the video.

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Speaker 2: I was pushed and pulled, struggled to maintain my balance,

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Speaker 5: And then flat on my chest, and as I was handcuffed.

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Speaker 2: And marched down a hallway, repeatedly asking why am I

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Speaker 2: being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I

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Speaker 1: To my mind. First of all, where are they taking me?

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Speaker 2: Because I know I'm not just being escorted out of

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Speaker 1: Am I being arrested here?

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Speaker 3: And what will a city already on edge from being

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Speaker 1: I don't know who you are. No one's going to

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Speaker 5: And what will my wife think? What will our boys think?

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Speaker 1: It's like dad, stay home?

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Speaker 2: And I also remember asking myself if this aggressive escalation

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Speaker 1: Right? Stop? Stop, stop, I can't take this a second time.

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Speaker 1: Shut up the overreach and abuses good? I mean, for

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Speaker 1: You're not the president, Padilla. You're barely a senator. You're

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Speaker 2: So last week, when I heard something so blatantly un

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Speaker 2: But before I could even get out my question, I

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Speaker 1: Don't you know who I was? I am sitting us Senator?

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Speaker 1: I had a question. What was his question? I don't

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Speaker 2: Now, throughout this country's history, we've had conflict, we've had tumults,

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