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Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 3: Michael Monks is going to be with us after Debor's

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Speaker 3: two thirty news. You're not gonna believe this. The LA

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Speaker 3: City Council is creating a new a new agency, a

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Speaker 3: that have blown billions of dollars. Seriously, the answer to

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Speaker 3: deal with these homeless agencies that have lost billions of dollars,

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Speaker 3: blown a lot of it with no good outcome is

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Speaker 3: to create a superstructure on top of them. Anyway, Michael, oh,

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Speaker 3: and I also got a story. Realclear Investigations dot com

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Speaker 3: has a story that encapsulates all the horrors of homelessness

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Speaker 3: in Los Angeles over the last few years, focusing on

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Speaker 3: all the fires that homeless people set. Because, as you know,

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Speaker 3: the homeless industry is funded far better than the fire department. Well,

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Speaker 3: we found that out. The fire department is badly underfunded

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Speaker 3: by about fifty percent. The homeless industry is wildly overfunded

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Speaker 3: with no visible progress. Weight Tea here is a pretty

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Speaker 3: extensive story on how many fires the homeless people set

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Speaker 3: and It really makes you wonder just how insane the

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Speaker 3: government is and how insane the voters are in this

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Speaker 3: city to allow this to go on, especially after they

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Speaker 3: know about it. We'll get to that, but now to

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Speaker 3: one of the today's big Trump stories, and there's only

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Speaker 3: about always about a dozen every day. Trump has ended

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Speaker 3: the Secret Service protection for Joe Biden's kids, including Hunter Biden. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we were paying for Hunter Biden's Secret Service detail. Now

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Speaker 3: under by law, Joe Biden gets Secret Service protection for

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Speaker 3: the rest of his life. The kids don't. That's the

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Speaker 3: choice of whoever's president. Let's get Don mahalakan ABC News

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Speaker 2: I can't say that phrase. And I don't know why.

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Speaker 2: You're just having a day. I'm having a day. Don Mahollick, welcome,

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Speaker 2: How are.

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Speaker 1: You good, John? How are you guys?

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Speaker 3: So what's the law and who gets Secret Service protection?

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Speaker 3: And who's the decision maker on this?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so the Secret Service under federal law, you know,

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Speaker 4: others that get Secret Service protection are done by executive order,

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Speaker 4: and I forgot the menage Fearnhead of states visiting the

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Speaker 4: But the children are given Secret Service protection up until

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Speaker 4: they're eighteen. So Sasha and Malia Obama lost Secret Service

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Speaker 4: Secret Service protection. They probably should have because, let's face it,

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Speaker 4: making national security decisions, which was the reason why the

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Speaker 3: So when Biden left, he gave Hunter and Ashley six

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Speaker 4: Yes, that's the beauty of executive orders is one president

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Speaker 1: They're written on like flash pay for some of them.

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Speaker 2: Well, if we didn't know, we certainly learned in the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so you know, President Trump was in his right

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Speaker 4: to cut off the protection. He also cut off protection

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Speaker 1: In the long haul.

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Speaker 3: Now, if Trump has another fit against Biden, could he

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Speaker 2: Is there any there?

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Speaker 4: No, because in federal law they're entitled to lifetime Secret

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Speaker 4: Would I would think the I think the Secret Service

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Speaker 4: We're mandated here, so you know you can't just you

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Speaker 3: Do you think that they have put the Secret Service

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Speaker 4: I think the Secret Service, with his new director, Sean Curran,

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Speaker 3: Why do you think for all these years, for all

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Speaker 3: That's so strange.

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Speaker 4: I've asked that my entire career, and I think most

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Speaker 4: How does this Secret Service not end up with its

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Speaker 4: There's been some conversation about moving the agency from Homeland

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Speaker 2: All right, Don, thank you for coming on with us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me John all Right.

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Speaker 3: Good always good talking to you. Don Mahallick, and he

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Speaker 3: is ABC News Law enforcement contributor and a retired senior

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Speaker 3: Secret Service agent. Yes, third time is the charm when

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Speaker 3: we come back. Real Clear and Investigations did a piece

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Speaker 2: And this comes on the same day.

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Speaker 3: This report comes on the same day that the city

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Speaker 3: And we'll have Michael Monks with that story after Debra's

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 3: Coming up after two thirty in Deborah's news, Michael Monks

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Speaker 3: from KFI News. The LA City Council today created a

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Speaker 3: Do you remember? This was Francesca Padilla of Venice and

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Speaker 3: then includes investigations by KEKEW News, NBC's Channel four's ITEAM.

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Speaker 3: Do you know since twenty nineteen, the number of fires

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Speaker 2: I mean, they.

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Speaker 3: Audubon Society, treasurer Audubon Society.

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Speaker 2: They're birdwatchers, she said, she and her colleagues.

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Speaker 3: I've seen about one hundred and fifty people living there,

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Speaker 2: There's two types of fires.

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Speaker 3: There's the fires which are used to cook meth and

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Speaker 3: me tell you, and I'm ever giving up on this,

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Speaker 3: you cannot have a fire department fifty percent funded. It's

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Speaker 3: more dollars to these criminal homeless agencies. Then you do

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Speaker 3: the fire department, and the homeless agencies are all failing,

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Speaker 3: I mean, seventeen thousand fires.

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Speaker 2: When when does and then Karen bast says, I'm not

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Speaker 2: Play that again? She said this week that she's not

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Speaker 3: You already quit if you e left seventeen thousand fires

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Speaker 3: the Palisades burns down. Is anybody connecting all these dots

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Speaker 3: isn't it obvious? Am I crazy? Sometimes I feel like

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Speaker 3: I'm crazy? Maybe I am crazy? Well, I both could

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Speaker 3: now we come to Michael Monks right after Deborah's news

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Speaker 3: because the city council voted thirteen to nothing to create

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Speaker 2: So Michael will be on next. She's a little crazy too, Well, now,

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Speaker 2: who are you to come? Might not crazy? We'll put

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 2: You may be dizzy.

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Speaker 3: With all the cases that have been brought to court

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Speaker 3: Trump deporting hundreds of Venezuelan gang members, some Marisa Latrucia

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Speaker 2: It because I will.

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Speaker 3: Actually I talked about this a few weeks ago. What

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Speaker 3: It's fascinating. We've got Michael Monks here, who's also fascinating,

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Speaker 3: because I don't know how anybody can cover city government

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Speaker 3: as much as you do without going insane, and maybe

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Speaker 3: you are insane. They voted thirteen to nothing today, and

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Speaker 3: it was to create some kind of new homeless agency,

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Speaker 3: some new homeless department to oversee all the old homeless

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Speaker 3: departments that have failed.

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Speaker 2: Let me stop you right there and correct the facts. John.

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Speaker 6: It's not a homeless department. This would be a bureau. Oh,

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Speaker 6: it's a bureau. It would be a bureau. Not to

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Speaker 6: legal difference between a bureau in a department. Well, there's

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Speaker 6: certainly a bureaucratic difference. In this case. So this is

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Speaker 6: Oh no, the money we're spending, which is a lot

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Speaker 6: for homeless programs, we don't seem to know how it's going,

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Speaker 6: So we need a bureau inside City Hall to keep

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Speaker 6: better track of where these dollars are going. Man, I

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Speaker 6: Rahman says, we spend a lot of money on our

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Speaker 6: well as rental subsidies.

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Speaker 2: Blah blah.

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Speaker 6: Homeless response is complicated, she says, But she also says

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Speaker 6: the obvious and really the thing that should get people's attention.

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Speaker 6: No one in City Hall is tasked with knowing, for example,

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Speaker 6: how often encampments are being visited by outreach workers, how

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Speaker 6: they don't even have the data on how these programs

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Speaker 6: these homeless agencies, departments and bureaus, what do they do

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Speaker 6: all day if they're not tracking what the money is

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Speaker 2: Return they're getting.

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Speaker 6: That's a question that has been raised recently by two audits,

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Speaker 6: The most recent one was ordered by a federal judge

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Speaker 6: and it was.

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Speaker 3: Over two billion dollars that they didn't know where it

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Speaker 6: That's right, and so the county's response to this being

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Speaker 6: the second audit of LASA a poor audit.

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Speaker 2: Right, because the city controller, I think had an audit too.

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Speaker 6: The controllers at an audit it's not looking good for

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Speaker 6: they will move a lot of their resources out of

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Speaker 6: LASA and they will oversee it themselves at the city.

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Speaker 6: This is not a department again which has been proposed,

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Speaker 6: they call for report backs. It's doing all They want

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Speaker 6: to know how much money they would need to fund

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Speaker 6: existing agencies where they have experience with homeless. So they're

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Speaker 6: going to take people from these failing homeless agencies and

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Speaker 6: transfer them to the Homeless Bureau. But these are the

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Speaker 6: It's been stated that yes, some of the folks may

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Speaker 2: They might come from a home from the Housing department.

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Speaker 3: A second, you're gonna have higher people from LASA who

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Speaker 2: Who's they're the ones you lost it?

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Speaker 6: That's right, So there are that's right, You're right, I mean,

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Speaker 6: and it is the same agencies, it's the same hands.

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Speaker 6: And that's why this response from the city is not

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Speaker 6: Keep in mind, LASA is governed by a board that

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Speaker 6: and oversight of that agency. The county is ready to

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Speaker 3: It says in one report the city works with several agencies.

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Speaker 3: You have in addition to LASA, you have the Housing

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Speaker 6: I think the goal, as stated, is that the Bureau

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Speaker 6: those various agencies are on any given day. But so far,

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Speaker 6: what it looks like is the attempts to create better

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Speaker 6: lives for homeless people has created job opportunities for housed people,

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Speaker 6: right while not improving the homeless situation.

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Speaker 3: I also, if I remember the audit, right, they found

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Speaker 3: that a lot of the money, like half the money

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Speaker 3: hadn't even spent.

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Speaker 2: What that is the controller audit that came out.

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Speaker 6: Now, there was some pushback on that that was valid

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Speaker 6: that some of these funds are not you know, to

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Speaker 6: be spent this year. They are from different grants or

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Speaker 6: that sort of thing. So when you lump it together,

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Speaker 6: it looks bad. But there was some nuance to that,

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Speaker 6: right that I think we should concede, you know, yet

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Speaker 6: this money could not be spent yet, or it's not

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Speaker 6: reflected in the budget yet, that sort of thing. It's

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Speaker 6: a three year plan with that money. But still there's

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Speaker 6: a lot of money in a bucket that hasn't been.

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Speaker 3: But they all know this has been going on for years,

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Speaker 3: and they suddenly sit upright and go, oh my god,

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Speaker 3: I had no idea.

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Speaker 2: Well, yes, you had an idea. It's been ten years

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Speaker 2: of this nonsense.

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Speaker 6: That's what's got to be the most surprising for folks

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Speaker 6: who've been watching this for a long. Look, I'm a

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Speaker 6: year into this, and I can't believe sometimes how slowly

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Speaker 6: things have moved to address this crisis that is visible

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Speaker 6: on every street in the inner city of Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 6: And for this, by the way, the bureau is not

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Speaker 6: automatically created. We're getting a report in thirty days and

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Speaker 6: then we will know more. And the county's new department

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Speaker 6: is supposed to stand up this summer.

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Speaker 2: That's how quickly the county is trying to move.

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Speaker 3: Uh, huh, okay, wow, and they all do this with

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Speaker 3: a straight face.

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 2: It's a very serious delivery of comments today at city Hall.

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Speaker 3: I see, all right, Michael Monks k if I News,

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Speaker 3: he gets paid to witness this. Coming up after three o'clock,

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Speaker 3: Royal Oaks is going to explain the uh, all the

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Speaker 3: battles going on between Trump and various judges on all

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Speaker 3: these executive orders and deportations that he's getting sued over

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Speaker 3: in court.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.

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Speaker 3: Coming up after three o'clock after Denver's News, Royal Oaks,

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Speaker 3: the ABC News legal analyst, and we're going to talk

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Speaker 3: about these judges who are blocking Trump orders on various issues.

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Speaker 3: Of course, the biggest headline is Trump sending hundreds of

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Speaker 3: Venezuelan and El Salvadorian gang members to l Salvador, to

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Speaker 3: the worst prison in the hemisphere. And the judge was saying, well, no,

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Speaker 3: I'm blocking that. Turn the planes around. And they said, well,

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Speaker 3: planes already in the air well, turn them around. Well,

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Speaker 3: planes inter international airspace, turn them around. I say, oh,

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Speaker 3: it looks like the planes landed. Sorry, that's really what

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Speaker 3: went on. So Trump is openly resisting the judge. James

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Speaker 3: Boseburg Borah Oaks will talk about it now hang on.

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Speaker 3: Oh with the Democrats, this is very amusing. In fact,

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Speaker 3: I couldn't believe this. I had to go I heard

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Speaker 3: this on the radio this morning, and I had to go, well,

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Speaker 3: Eric has got a fuller clip here, because I couldn't

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Speaker 3: believe with all the turmoil going on in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 3: But Chuck Schumer, who is the Minori leader in the

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Speaker 3: Senate for the Democrats, and he's one of the last

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Speaker 3: Democratic leaders whose name you might recognize who's actually been

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Speaker 3: in power for a long time. Now, the Democrats' approval

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Speaker 3: rating is down to twenty nine percent in this country.

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Speaker 2: Twenty nine percent.

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Speaker 3: Now, if your party has lost the House and lost

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Speaker 3: the Senate and lost the presidency and the Supreme Court

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Speaker 3: seems stacked against you, and your approval rating as a

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Speaker 3: whole is down to twenty nine percent, would you go

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Speaker 3: on national television on the view no less those cackling

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Speaker 3: hens and mock business owners who feel that they built

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Speaker 3: the business themselves and they don't want the government to

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Speaker 3: take their money. Would you actually go on TV and

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Speaker 3: mock them? But if this doesn't show you what guys

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Speaker 3: like Schumer are really about. He really does think it's

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Speaker 3: his money to spend and not yours. So play this clip.

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Speaker 3: They were talking about tariffs, and this is from the

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Speaker 3: view he.

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Speaker 7: Wants to put these tariffs in. It's going to raise you, folks,

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Speaker 7: the average family, twenty two thousand dollars a year for

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Speaker 7: these tarifts.

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Speaker 1: Why is he doing that? Something so stupid?

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Speaker 7: Why he wants to use that money for tax cuts

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Speaker 7: for the billionaires. The Republican Party is a different kettle

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Speaker 7: of fish than it used to be, and that's why

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Speaker 7: we're fighting them so hard. They are controlled by a

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Speaker 7: small group a wealthy, greedy people. And you know what

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Speaker 7: their attitude is, I made my money all by myself.

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Speaker 7: How dare your government take my money for me. I

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Speaker 7: don't want to pay taxes? Or I built my company

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Speaker 7: with my bare hands. How dare your government tell me

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Speaker 7: how I should treat my customers, the land and water

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Speaker 7: that I own, or my employees. They hate government. Government's

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Speaker 7: a barrier to people, a barrier to stop them from

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Speaker 7: doing things. They want to destroy it. We are not

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Speaker 7: letting them do it, and we're united.

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Speaker 3: Notice they jacked up the music to try to get

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Speaker 3: them off stage. It's like at the Oscars, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's like, Okay, that's enough of that. Even at the

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Speaker 3: view it's like, oh, this is not good. He is

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Speaker 3: setting himself on fire here. I mean, that is one

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Speaker 3: of the most offensive things I've ever heard. Yes, they

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Speaker 3: do start up. The people do start companies all by themselves.

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Speaker 3: They do build companies with their bare hands. And know

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Speaker 3: they don't want the government taking the money because where

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Speaker 3: does the money go. That's really so outrageous. You're greedy

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Speaker 3: for wanting to keep your own money. I've heard everything now,

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Speaker 3: I thought, greedy is when you take other people's money. No, no,

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Speaker 3: you're keeping your own money. Schumer wants to take it

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Speaker 3: from you, but you're the greedy one, not him. And

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Speaker 3: look at all the garbage that they spend it on.

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Speaker 2: I heard this.

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Speaker 3: I had to listen to her like like three four times,

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Speaker 3: like are you serious, buddy, Yes, it is my money. No,

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Speaker 3: I don't want the government to take it, by the

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Speaker 3: way once and for all because people are so ignorant.

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Speaker 3: The top one percent pays over forty percent of the

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Speaker 3: income tax in this country.

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Speaker 2: You got that.

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Speaker 3: Write this down, tattoo this on your forehead. Top one

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Speaker 3: percent pays over forty percent of the income tax. Do

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Speaker 3: you know what the bottom fifty percent pays? The bottom

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Speaker 3: fifty percent of earners, they pay three percent.

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Speaker 2: Of the income tax. So I don't know. Is that

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Speaker 2: is that a fair share?

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Speaker 3: When you have half the country paying three percent total

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Speaker 3: and the top one percent paying forty percent.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a fair share.

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Speaker 3: Top one percent past forty percent, bottom fifty pays three

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Speaker 3: That's the truth.

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Speaker 2: Go look it up.

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Speaker 3: And then he talks about greedy businessman And you've heard

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Speaker 3: over the past two months. What they're spending it on.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look at the big story we started with

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Speaker 3: today with Nussum. He's blowing twelve billion dollars on illegal

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Speaker 3: alien healthcare. It's six billion over budget. He's got to

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Speaker 3: borrow three and a half billion, and then he wants

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Speaker 3: another three billion to get them through June. It's illegal

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Speaker 3: alien healthcare. Yes, I want to keep my money. Call

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Speaker 3: me greedy. I don't care. Fires running a business and

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Speaker 3: I'm financing millions of people who broke the law and

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Speaker 3: are squatting in this country, and I gotta pay all

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Speaker 3: their medical bills. If I run a small business and

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to provide health care for my family.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I don't want. I don't.

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Speaker 3: The government is awful. It's horrendous. Well that's gonna win

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Speaker 3: you an election. That's a good platform to run on.

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Speaker 3: All right, we come back. So Trump deports two hundred

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Speaker 3: and sixty gang members, violent felon, violent felons. I mean,

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Speaker 3: the worst people in the Northern Hemisphere. These are the

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Speaker 3: worst people. Of these are terrorist organizations. MS thirteen and

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Speaker 3: trend Dear Ragua are declared terrorist organizations. They're cartels, they're gangs,

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Speaker 3: they're violent, they do horrible things, they rape and murder people,

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Speaker 3: and so Trump ejects to hundred and sixty from the country,

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Speaker 3: sends them to El Salvador in prison, and some judges going, oh, no,

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Speaker 3: you can't do that, and judge basically gave him the bird.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk with Royal Oaks, ABC News legal correspondent about

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Speaker 3: all that.

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Speaker 1: Next.

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Speaker 3: Debor Mark Live the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey,

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