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Speaker 3: the news that's been swirling around all day from back

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Speaker 3: east is Gallainne Maxwell meeting with the Deputy Attorney General

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Speaker 3: give the government names. Now as of about oh, I

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Speaker 3: don't know one thirty. The New York Post reported that

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Speaker 3: Glenn Maxwell gave the Department of Justice the names of

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Speaker 3: one hundred different people connected to Jeffrey Epstein. Now when

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Speaker 3: Trump could give her a pardon that's been swirling in

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Speaker 3: with Royal Oaks, ABC News Legal analyst Royal, how are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It seems like everybody on both sides of the politic spectrum,

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Speaker 1: John are very interested in this. It's kind of like

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Speaker 1: we have to change our national motto from eurbazunam to

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Speaker 1: inquiring minds want to know because the left wants to

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Speaker 1: have some information. The non prosecution deal you mentioned, John

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Speaker 1: is really interesting. It's very rare that the prosecutors will say, look,

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Speaker 3: And because first I heard of this, you know, my

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Speaker 1: That's right between that sweetheart deal. And then in twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 3: Why did Trump's people say that they had these lists,

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Speaker 1: as you say, she's angling to her getting out to

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Speaker 1: you here, wants to pardon, she wants some court to say, Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was not really fair. Were you were cheated? You

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Speaker 3: Well, somebody must have been having sex with these girls.

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Speaker 2: There must have been customers.

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Speaker 1: passage of time is so critical here. I mean it's

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Speaker 2: So we're six years?

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Speaker 3: Would I would, if you'd ask me, I already guest

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Speaker 3: three years, it's been six years since he was found

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Speaker 1: And implies when he's not having fun.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well I'm very good.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Royle, all right, thank you, Royal.

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Speaker 2: Now, do not go to the New York Post, Deborah.

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Speaker 5: Why John.

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Speaker 2: They have a story.

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Speaker 3: About a dog groomer caught on video punching the dogs

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Speaker 2: I saw it. That's bad. It's bad.

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Speaker 5: Was in the grooming salon.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah yeah. And and the dogs are hooked.

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Speaker 5: Oh god, yes, I know what they do. I mean

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Speaker 5: when they're grooming. They yes, they can't go anywhere, right.

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Speaker 3: The the the leash is on a hook, and so

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Speaker 3: Punch after punch after punch. They got video of two

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Speaker 5: Wait a second, there's nobody else in the room with

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Speaker 2: Well, somebody was and they took video.

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Speaker 2: They didn't stop her. They took the video. Where is this?

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Speaker 2: Let me see?

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Speaker 5: Here is this? A local grooming.

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Speaker 2: Salon North Carolina.

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Speaker 3: any animal cruelty. She was the employee brutalizing dogs at

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Speaker 2: And I mean what.

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Speaker 3: And these were sweet dogs and they weren't even fighting

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Speaker 5: Well unless the person that was recording her, they they

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Speaker 2: This way. Karen Bass wants it this way.

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Speaker 3: It's a great cover. Again, I've been talked about this repeatedly.

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Speaker 3: other things. All right, Brian Coberger, who is the murderer.

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Speaker 3: He is now going to be in prison forever, four

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Speaker 3: the prosecution, and they had interviewed a number of people

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Speaker 3: Asked whether Coburger committed the murders, the guy said, yes,

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Speaker 3: You know, it's hard to describe why eyes like communicate

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Speaker 2: Look at it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, very true.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yes, you know there are people. I can tell

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Speaker 5: I didn't know that.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's true.

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Speaker 2: And then crazy people you can tell.

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Speaker 2: You have nice eyes.

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Speaker 2: You're capable of pulling off the crazy eyes.

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Speaker 3: Another inmate at the Latack County Jail described a number

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Speaker 3: That's what you find on dating sites. Why do you

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Speaker 5: What'd she say?

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Speaker 3: Well he she told Coburger the worst way to die would.

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Speaker 5: Oh jeez.

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Speaker 3: And Coburger replied, replied, like a k bar. And that

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Speaker 3: is the knife that's very popular. It was adopted by

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Speaker 3: the Marine Corps their utility knife. It's called ka hyphen bar,

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Speaker 3: a k bar. This goes back one hundred years. And

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Speaker 3: he offered like a K bar. Well, they found a

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Speaker 3: K bar sheath at the crime scene, and they found

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Speaker 3: that he had purchased a k bar knife and sheath

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Speaker 3: on Amazon before the homicides. Yes, you could go to

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Speaker 3: Amazon for your murder weapons. After the conversation petered out,

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Speaker 3: they were going to meet over a Christmas holiday, but

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Speaker 3: she canceled. Coburger made her uncomfortable.

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Speaker 5: What did he do? What besides talking about this knife?

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Speaker 5: What else did he do?

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Speaker 2: Maybe just his general demeanor? Okay, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: There's no specifics, No, there's no specifics, but I guess

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Speaker 3: offering the brand of knife.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm curious how much she engaged with him after

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Speaker 5: he said that.

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Speaker 3: It says after that conversation. I don't know, so it's

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Speaker 3: not written all that clearly, so I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I would love to talk to her now and say, hmm,

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Speaker 5: what do.

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Speaker 2: You think around Yeah, I know they.

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Speaker 3: After the murders, she tried to contact authorities, but the

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Speaker 3: detective said the call could not be verified.

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Speaker 2: They couldn't corroborate the tip.

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Speaker 4: So I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe she just disappeared because who wants to get involved

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Speaker 2: in this? All right, We've got more coming up.

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

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock.

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Speaker 3: We spent a lot of time in the first hour

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Speaker 3: with Michael Monks reporting on the changing of the guard

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Speaker 3: of there's a new director for that loss of atrocity

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Speaker 3: Los Angeles Housing Services Authority, you know, the one that

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Speaker 3: has failed miserably for decades reducing homelessness. Homeless This has

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Speaker 3: actually increased dramatically since they created LASA, and Valisi Adams

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Speaker 3: Kellum is resigning.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: A judge ordered an audit.

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Speaker 3: The audit found two billion dollars unaccounted for she can't

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Speaker 3: explain it. The idiot who hired her, Karen Bass, can't

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Speaker 3: explain it either. So they're getting somebody new and the

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Speaker 3: county has pulled out entirely.

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Speaker 2: We'll go through that, but with the backdrop of.

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Speaker 3: Trump's announcement that he's issuing an executive order and he

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Speaker 3: wants all the homeless people off the street all over

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Speaker 3: the country, all the mental patients, all the drug addicts gone.

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Speaker 2: Now, how he's going to do that, Well, we'll give you.

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Speaker 3: We'll give you an explanation as to what it's an

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Speaker 3: executive order that's going to make it easier to remove

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Speaker 3: homeless people. All right, I've got to explain that if

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Speaker 3: I can. But you know what, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, what you do.

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Speaker 3: What's needed is like an absolute order, and it's like, no,

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Speaker 3: they're going to be gone.

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Speaker 2: Enough of this. They have spent billions. It went up.

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Speaker 3: I don't care how many times they try to defend

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Speaker 3: themselves and explain themselves. They are colossal failures. They have

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Speaker 3: to be taken off the streets. The cities that don't

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Speaker 3: have homeless people, and these mental patients and drug addicts

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Speaker 3: simply don't permit it.

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Speaker 2: And enough is enough, No more. Debating this no more

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Speaker 2: going in circles.

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Speaker 3: There is no way to fix this problem other than

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Speaker 3: forcing people, forcing people like police, taking them at gunpoint

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Speaker 3: if necessary, and putting them inside a mental institution or

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Speaker 3: a treatment center.

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Speaker 2: Period.

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Speaker 3: And that's what we have to work towards. So we'll

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Speaker 3: talk about that coming up. This is hard to believe,

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Speaker 3: you know, the city is crumbling and it's costing us

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Speaker 3: an incredible amount of money. You go back, you go

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Speaker 3: back just four years ago. Ron Galprian was the city

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Speaker 3: controller and he found that La had received seventeen hundred

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Speaker 3: claims and over a thousand lawsuits people saying they got

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Speaker 3: injured walking on the sidewalk. The city paid out thirty

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Speaker 3: five million lawsuits in the five years leading up to

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, thirty five million people tripping and falling,

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Speaker 3: and still the sidewalks weren't fixed. Now, the big headline

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Speaker 3: in the La Daily News that at least in one

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Speaker 3: section of the city in the northern San Fernando John

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Speaker 3: Lee is the councilman, they have a new program to

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Speaker 3: repair the sidewalks, and this gets a big news story

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Speaker 3: to big headline. This should be this is what's infuriating

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Speaker 3: about the Garcetti Bass years, the basic simple stuff was

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Speaker 3: never done, and whatever it costs to fix sidewalks is

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Speaker 3: dwarfed by the cost of the lawsuits from all the

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Speaker 3: people who tripped and got hurt walking on the sidewalks.

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Speaker 3: So then you do it in parts of Granada Hills, Chatsworth,

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Speaker 3: north Ridge, Port of Ranch, Vercida, and West Hills. Uh.

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Speaker 3: It sends small crews to make minor sidewalk repairs that

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Speaker 3: otherwise languish for years and become big problems.

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Speaker 2: Like tree roots, right, I.

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Speaker 5: See them all over the place in the valley here.

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Speaker 2: You walk a lot.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I worry about tripping. I'm not kidding.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to constantly be looking down because the

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Speaker 3: sidewalks are an even the roots pushed them up.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it crack the sidewalks.

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Speaker 3: I am astonished, how how how the city has crumbled

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Speaker 3: into literally little pieces the roads. So it's a small project.

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Speaker 3: He's getting a couple one hundred thousand dollars from these

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Speaker 3: different funds, and he just wants to complete twenty projects.

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Speaker 3: It's a pilot program. What is it to see if

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Speaker 3: it works?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 2: Of course it'll work.

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Speaker 3: They've been fixing sidewalks for I know since the beginning

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Speaker 3: of sidewalks. It's the amount of money that is wasted

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Speaker 3: on lawsuits. It's tremendous.

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Speaker 2: And U.

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Speaker 3: I'm what surprised me reading the story is how it

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Speaker 3: is treated like like some great breakthrough, like John Lee

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Speaker 3: should get some a standing ovation, maybe an awards dinner.

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Speaker 3: This this is all I want these hacks to do.

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Speaker 3: I don't want all their stupid social experiments which all

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Speaker 3: end up in failure. Pave the streets, fixed the roads fully,

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Speaker 3: thund the fire and police department. I don't know what else,

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Speaker 3: nothing else matters, get rid of all the social programs,

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Speaker 3: tell people to go get a job and figure it

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Speaker 3: out themselves. But yeah, yeah, like like like no money

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Speaker 3: spent on the sidewalks, and you have literally thousands of lawsuits,

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Speaker 3: billions spent on the homeless, and we ended up with

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Speaker 3: a vast increase in homelessness. They are so correct, you know,

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Speaker 3: I'd like to call them stupid because I enjoy calling

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Speaker 3: them stupid. They are stupid, but they primarily are corrupt.

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Speaker 3: All right, when we come back this Trump Executive Order

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Speaker 3: to end street Homelessness, we'll give you some details see

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Speaker 3: how this is going to work. But he's decided that

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Speaker 3: you know what, I kind of like. It's like, if

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Speaker 3: the local cities and states don't clean up their messes,

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Speaker 3: he's going to use every lever the federalment government has

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Speaker 3: to force them. That's next. Deborah Mark Live in the

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