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Speaker 2: of dozen of his favorite phrases that he used, that

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Speaker 2: that game coming up, all right, So you know we're

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Speaker 2: we're headed towards the finale soon of the Trump trial

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Speaker 2: with Michael Cohen probably next week is going to be testifying,

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Speaker 2: but there were still more details to go through today

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Speaker 2: in between Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen, and we got

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Speaker 2: Peter Haralumbus from ABC News who's been following following the

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Speaker 2: case in New York City. Peter, how are you? I

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Speaker 2: don't hear him. I hear a hum.

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Speaker 1: Can hear me right now? I can hear you, Peter,

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Speaker 1: how are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm good? Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So we're kind of in between zone here between

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Speaker 2: Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen's coming up for much the

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Speaker 2: next week.

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Speaker 1: Correct, that's correct.

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Speaker 3: But you're completely right. We're in the final stretch of

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Speaker 3: this case, just the days, a few days left in

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Speaker 3: the government's case here. The only real major witness left

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Speaker 3: of the two outstanding state witnesses is Michael Cohen, who

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Speaker 3: could take the witness stand as early as Monday, and

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Speaker 3: who could be on the witness stand for days as

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Speaker 3: prosecution tries to use him to kind of develop their

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Speaker 3: cases in many ways to start witness in this case,

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Speaker 3: and then defense lawyers attempt to go after his credibility

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Speaker 3: in any way they can.

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Speaker 2: What I personally am having trouble figuring out what the

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Speaker 2: big multi felony crime is here. Can you run through

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Speaker 2: for people, because I don't think a lot of people

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Speaker 2: understand that we've got a misdemeanor that they have connected

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Speaker 2: to a felony and the felony is election interference. Can

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Speaker 2: you explain how that works? Because next week, I assume

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Speaker 2: the prosecution is finally going to get into that part

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good question, and the jury is going

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Speaker 3: to have to wrap their heads around it sometime in

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Speaker 3: the next few weeks when they begin deliberating. But fundamentally,

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Speaker 3: the thirty four counts in this case are falsifying business records.

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Speaker 3: That's a felony offense here in New York when it's

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Speaker 3: charged in conjunction or in furtherance excuse me of an

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Speaker 3: additional crime. So when you look at the actual indictment,

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Speaker 3: it lists thirty four counts of different business records that

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Speaker 3: prosecutors say Trump falsified. So we're talking about basically ledger entries, checks,

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Speaker 3: and invoices. These were documents used to repay Michael Cohen

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Speaker 3: in twenty seventeen for a hush money payment he made

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Speaker 3: to Stormy Daniels ahead of the twenty sixteen election. So

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Speaker 3: those are documents. Fundamentally, it's the document's case, But prosecutors

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Speaker 3: say all of that activity was used to kind of

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Speaker 3: sixteen election, when Trump and David Pecker, the former publisher

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Speaker 3: negative stories about Trump and kill those stories. The big

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Speaker 3: over the last week is Stormy Daniel's allegations of an

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Speaker 3: the days ahead of the twenty sixteen election, and that

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Speaker 2: So they're trying to make the case that trying to

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Speaker 2: election interference. I mean, I would think every major candidate

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Speaker 3: I mean, fundamentally, that's Trump's lawyer, Trump's defense here there.

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Speaker 3: His lawyers have been upfront from day one of this

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Speaker 3: there's nothing illegal about signing a non disclosure agreement. I

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Speaker 3: was when he was agreeing with Michael Cohen and David

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Speaker 3: he was signing checks in the overall office to repay

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Speaker 3: Michael Cohen. But I completely see your points, and defense

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Speaker 3: lawyers have consistently raised this argument that there's nothing wrong

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Speaker 3: per se. It's a matter of kind of if it's

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Speaker 3: done in conjunction with another crime like falsifying business.

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Speaker 2: Records, right, and that particular myss to deaner, I keep

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Speaker 2: hearing the statute of limitations had run out on it

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Speaker 2: unless you connected to the felony of election interference, but

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so, I mean the judge you know, had the

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Speaker 3: the prosecution's theory, the legal theory at least behind the

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Speaker 3: case is functional, and that's why this case is at

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Speaker 3: the point where you know, Donald Trump is in a

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Speaker 3: we heard for kind of the first time that the

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Speaker 3: it shows that this trial is coming to an end soon,

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Speaker 1: Very strange trial.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously a lot of people think this is

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Speaker 2: just a political hit job, and I'm just fascinated by

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Speaker 2: how they created the scaffolding of a misdemeanor turned into

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Speaker 1: But that's, I don't know, pretty wobbly.

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Speaker 3: Scaffolding, especially in the context of you know, the jury

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Speaker 3: it's hard to come back to the fact that this

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Speaker 3: is a document's case, but fundamentally that's the jury's question

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Speaker 3: their days or weeks away from beginning to deliberate.

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Speaker 2: Peter, thanks very much, Talk with you again soon. Thanks

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Speaker 2: so much, John, Say Peter Harlambus from ABC News. You know,

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Speaker 2: I thought i'd hear this trial play out and listen

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Speaker 2: to the case. But you're right if you think this

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Speaker 2: is just a political hit job, it absolutely is. There

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Speaker 2: isn't much of a crime here. First of all, the

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Speaker 2: basis the base misdemeanor the statue of limitations expired, and

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Speaker 2: that's falsifying business records. And even that, what he wrote

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Speaker 2: down is legal fees on the ledger, which they were.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he was reimbursing his attorney who had paid

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Speaker 2: off Stormy Daniels. And paying off a woman to keep

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Speaker 2: her mouth shut about an affair is not illegal. So

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Speaker 2: Michael Cohen fronts the money, Trump reimburses him. It was

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Speaker 2: for legal reasons. But even so, even if you buy

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Speaker 2: the falsification of business records, well, the statute of limitations expired.

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Speaker 2: The only way to suspend the statue of limitations if

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Speaker 2: you tied it to a felony, and they came up

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Speaker 2: with thirty four felonies like Peter said, you know, writing

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Speaker 2: with the what the check was for. So and it

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Speaker 2: was a series of checks that went to Cohen to

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: But what is it to keep bad keep bad news

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Speaker 2: done that. You go through the whole Clinton era just

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Speaker 2: threatening people and making settlements all over that. I just

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Speaker 2: don't I don't get it. And why can't you keep

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Speaker 2: a private affair private and pay off your pay off

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Speaker 2: the woman you were with. I mean, that's not that's

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Speaker 2: not illegal because it's a political job. So see how

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Speaker 2: it's really gonna come down to if the jury's part

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Speaker 1: There's really nothing else to it. More coming up.

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Speaker 2: Well, this just in, or maybe it's this just found.

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Speaker 2: I don't know exactly what time this was posted in

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Speaker 2: the San Francisco Chronicle, but uh, er did you find

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Speaker 2: this or someone forward this time?

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Speaker 5: I found this as I was scrolling Twitter on the

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Speaker 5: John Cobelt radio page as I do during the show

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Speaker 5: to try and look for a new stories for you.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is this is terrific. Uh.

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Speaker 2: It turns out for a number of years, the city

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Speaker 2: of San Francisco has given has been giving homeless.

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Speaker 1: Drunks free booze.

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Speaker 2: Tax money has been sent, spent to give drunks booze.

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Speaker 1: Not making this up.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to read it as is because I just

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Speaker 2: got it for a small slice of San Francisco's homeless

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Speaker 2: population that suffers with severe alcohol addiction. Well stop right there,

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Speaker 2: what do you mean as small slice? I would think

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Speaker 2: most of them are getting blasted. In fact, when that

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Speaker 2: homeless encampment sprung up not that far from my house,

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Speaker 2: I got to see firsthand what it was really like

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Speaker 2: because I drove by it every day. There's a lot

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Speaker 2: were always empty whiskey bottles strewn about the small slice.

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Speaker 2: Who wrote this? What's their name? Saint John Barnard Smith?

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Speaker 2: That a person, Saint John barnetd hythened Smith. Oh again

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Speaker 2: with the hyphenated people. Hyphenated people are always headaches. And

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Speaker 2: the other writer is Maggie Angst perfect name.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Saint John is a man or a woman who the

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Speaker 2: hell knows. But it says that nurses offer treatment not

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Speaker 2: in a pill, but in a shot of vodka or

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Speaker 2: a glass of beer. This this has been going on

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Speaker 2: for a while. It may sound counterintuitive, experts say, you think,

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Speaker 2: but it helps keep people off the streets in an

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Speaker 2: out of emergency rooms and jails or the morgue.

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Speaker 1: I see.

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Speaker 2: This is that harm reduction garbage, which is another failed

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Speaker 2: progressive concept. They you know, like those programs where they

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Speaker 2: give drugs to drug addicts so they won't die.

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Speaker 1: No wonder they stay homeless.

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Speaker 2: Even though we have unbelievably high taxes in this state

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Speaker 2: We just found this a few minutes ago. It's a

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Speaker 1: So you have your.

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Speaker 2: You want vodka, you want bourbon, you want rum, your gin?

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Speaker 2: Either one point seven ounces of liquor or five ounces

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Speaker 2: I wonder if any other city in the country is

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Speaker 2: This is really out of control. Nuts. So they get

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Speaker 1: They want wine, beer, Oh.

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Speaker 2: So they so they go to cultural outings, but you

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Speaker 1: And then what do you take into the theater, the ballet,

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Speaker 2: They get the cheap tickets out in the outfield everybody.

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Speaker 2: We kept giving them drinks after we knew they were alcoholics,

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Speaker 2: he says, it's a better way to spend our money

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Speaker 1: That's what you do.

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Speaker 2: Or you go to jail and you forced you force

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Speaker 2: the reporter's name. Oh it's a guy, Saint John Barnard Smith.

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Speaker 2: Oh she covers homelessness, addiction, and mental health. Oh this

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Speaker 2: percent of the population. See, it's disproportionate. We have more

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Speaker 2: There was only six states that performed worse than California

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Speaker 2: there's a there's a lot of job losses. We also

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Speaker 2: You've lost ground because wages in California are not keeping

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Speaker 2: up with the inflation increases. And this all leads to

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Speaker 2: a huge shortage of tax money, which is what we're

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Speaker 2: two because Newsom was trying, Oh do some is trying

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Speaker 2: to patch this and he's going into the reserves. Do

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Speaker 2: you know what we're spending? You know, we were spending

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Speaker 2: ten billion dollars last year. I remember when Schwarzenegger was governor,

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Speaker 2: and that's not that long ago, that only goes back

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Speaker 2: thirteen fourteen years. His budget was one hundred billion. How

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Speaker 2: Well by giving away money to everybody in sight. Now

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Speaker 2: we have a cradle to grave healthcare for every illegal

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Speaker 2: alien in the state. You got that for starters. All right,

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Speaker 2: we come back. We're going to go through Joe Biden.

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Speaker 2: You could you could you could tell how weak a

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Speaker 2: journalist is if the White House chooses you for one

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Speaker 2: of the very few one on one sit downs with

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden. Biden has done next to none of these

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Speaker 2: for obvious reasons. In fact, you know, as we go

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Speaker 2: he really believes this because he's senile, Because there was

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Speaker 2: a way to answer this question and try to spin

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Speaker 2: it to make yourself look good, it's the inflation question. Instead,

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Speaker 2: he just flat out made up a reality that doesn't exist,

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Speaker 2: and so is it because he's seen Nile and he

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Speaker 2: really believes it. He doesn't remember the circumstances when he

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Speaker 2: took office. I don't know, but the White House new

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Speaker 2: that Aaron Burnett at CNN wasn't going to challenge him

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Speaker 2: on it. Now was that a pre made agreement? Did

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Speaker 2: the bosses at CNN tell Aaron Burnett don't challenge him.

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Speaker 2: Just let the old guy say whatever he wants to say.

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Speaker 2: We want to get the quick rating hit and everyone

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Speaker 2: an anchor at ESPN said a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: She had to do an interview sit down with Biden

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Speaker 2: and all the way up to Bob Eiger at Disney

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Speaker 2: all told her follow this script doesn't matter how he

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Speaker 2: answers you follow this script and don't challenge him, and

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Speaker 2: there's no follow ups and there's no nothing. And so

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Speaker 2: everybody was in on the fake interview. Was Stage Steele

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Speaker 2: who made that claim, and she was very detailed. I

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Speaker 2: don't think it was just a claim. I think she

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Speaker 2: was telling the truth. So did Aaron Burnett. She have to,

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Speaker 2: I mean, is that what journalists have to do when

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Speaker 2: public relations interview for the president. The White House wants

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Speaker 2: it this way, this, this, I mean, this is communist

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Speaker 2: China stuff, right, this is so see it in now

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Speaker 2: like a state news ren agency. I don't know how

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Speaker 2: any news person sitting there with Biden starting to tell

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Speaker 2: the lies that he told not stand up and go

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Speaker 2: wait a second, hold on not doing this or I

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Speaker 2: mean you really you're going to get fired for challenge

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Speaker 2: you to the president on a whopping lie. And I

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Speaker 2: haven't even brought up the double standard with Trump. I'm

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Speaker 2: just saying factually, we'll get to it next. We've got

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Speaker 2: Debs off today. Ashley Johnson is hiding the KFI twenty

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