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Speaker 1: if you miss stuff. John Cobelt's show on demand on

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Speaker 1: the iHeart app. Carl Demile, the Republican assemblyman from the

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Speaker 1: of times. He put out a tweet which said that

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Speaker 1: California should brace itself for more than just eight dollars

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Speaker 1: per gallon of gas. I just left the closed door

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Speaker 1: briefing for legislators. We were told the California oil industry

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Speaker 1: is on the breakup, collapse, and there's a pending pipeline

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Speaker 1: shutdown result ten to twelve dollars a gallon gas and

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Speaker 1: gas rationing. Well, that's four hammers to the head, right brink,

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Speaker 1: A collapse, pending pipeline shut down, ten to twelve dollars

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Speaker 2: Yikes, Carl, Yeah, no, it's alarming, and it's worse than

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Speaker 2: people can possibly imagine. And of course, the liberal media

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Speaker 2: to actually cover this because it is quite alarming. We

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Speaker 2: did get a private briefing from oil and gas industry experts.

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Speaker 2: They say that they're in negotiations with the governor, that

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Speaker 2: the governor knows that this crisis is happening. It's kind

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Speaker 2: of odd, though, that the governor's office just put out

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Speaker 3: Basically, put your head back in the sand and not

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Speaker 2: Nationwide, gas prices are plummeting because President Trump's energy policies

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Speaker 2: both oil as well as the refined gas. However, in California,

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Speaker 2: policies because we are on an energy island. We do

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Speaker 2: we have to either pump our own oil and refine

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Speaker 3: In the last year, we've only had.

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Speaker 2: Circle back to that pipeline issue. I was not even

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Speaker 2: California does have a pipeline that takes the oil from

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Speaker 3: The remaining refinerments. But they need.

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Speaker 2: Enough pressure on the pipeline in order for it to

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to keep this quiet. People need to know.

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Speaker 2: They said, well, if you let this information out of

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Speaker 1: So the oil industry says they can't run the pipeline anymore.

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Speaker 2: I'm not an engineer. I'm also not an oil and

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Speaker 2: we're warning you that we're going to shut down the pipeline,

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Speaker 2: they've already shut down refineries. And guess what, John, They

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Speaker 2: If you thought Jimmy Carter's gas crisis was bad, wait

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Speaker 2: Yes, I was told that the governor realizes that there's

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Speaker 2: at the numbers. Nationwide, oil prices have gone down substantially.

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Speaker 3: In his first administration because of his policies.

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Speaker 2: And so they can't easily blame it on Trump.

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Speaker 3: And this is what the big problem is.

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Speaker 2: They don't want to go public until they have a

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Speaker 4: Forty four states.

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Speaker 1: The gas is under three point fifty a gallon in

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Speaker 2: I mean, we're I will tell you that I think

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that he was literally praying this weekend that

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Speaker 2: this whole thing out that did not happen. Oil and

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Speaker 2: God willing it continues to be settled down. But this

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Speaker 2: one of these things that, oh, well, the regulations kick

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Speaker 4: To doesn't understand it.

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Speaker 1: You you explained it in three and a half lines

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Speaker 2: I've been covering the oil disruption and the refinery regulations

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Speaker 3: I think that's where the governors go on.

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Speaker 2: I think that's where the governor is going to ultimately

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Speaker 1: Which is going to cost a fortune. Carl, thank you

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Speaker 1: for coming on. Let us know when you learn more.

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Speaker 1: This is really concerning. There's a story in the California

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Speaker 4: That that that is just that's very upsetting.

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Speaker 1: Because there's so many morons in the state that would

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Speaker 4: Can you can you imagine?

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Speaker 1: This is the woman who spent four years where her

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Speaker 6: And oh no, you can't get medical treatment. You got

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Speaker 4: Yours.

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Speaker 1: Yours was actually the lightest moment of the show so far.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: This was a decision that had been in the works

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Speaker 1: for many weeks. A federal jivee says Los Angeles has

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Speaker 1: failed with its homelessness program, So keep that at top

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Speaker 1: of mind next time you see Karen Bass open her

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Speaker 1: mouth and try to make claims about homelessness, she's lying.

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Speaker 1: Same thing with any of the La County Board of

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Speaker 1: Supervisors such as Hildes Elise or Jannis Hahn or Holly Mitchell.

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Speaker 1: They're lying. If you know the Lindsay corvask because LASA,

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Speaker 1: as you know, is a disaster. They have taken billions

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Speaker 1: of dollars in tax money, and we have more homeless

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Speaker 1: than ever. Karen Bass routinely issued statements claiming that they've

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Speaker 1: taken x number of homeless people off the street. They

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Speaker 1: have put them indoors one way or the other, inside safe.

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Speaker 1: You know, she doesn't talk about inside safe much anymore.

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Speaker 1: They ran out of money for that and it didn't work.

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Speaker 1: So whoever they put inside to be safe are going

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Speaker 1: to be outside and in your face. There was a

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Speaker 1: big lawsuit that was finally decided this week. There's a

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Speaker 1: group called La Alliance. It's a coalition of residents and

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Speaker 1: business owners and some people from legitimate nonprofits and they

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Speaker 1: sued the city. And this is the third time there's

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Speaker 1: been a legal settlement. There was one in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, and now we have a third

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Speaker 1: settlement in twenty twenty five. And the reason there are

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Speaker 1: three settlements, the reason there's been three lawsuits. As Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass and before her, Eric Carcetti flat out wasted the

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Speaker 1: money lied. Same thing with the La County Board of Supervisors.

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Speaker 1: Much of the money has been stolen. That's why you

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Speaker 1: have homeless people running amok. In fact, we got to

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Speaker 1: play the clip in Brentwood. A gardener was getting whacked

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Speaker 1: in the head repeatedly by a shirtless, bearded homeless guy

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Speaker 1: with a stick and it's hit all corners of the city,

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Speaker 1: and it's not getting any better. And it's hard to

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Speaker 1: get better when you have an entire bureaucracy of city,

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Speaker 1: county and lots of workers who actively steal the money,

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Speaker 1: who steer the tax dollars to nonprofits who steal the money.

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Speaker 1: They're politically connected nonprofits. I'll give you an example. Judged

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Speaker 1: Carter issued a sixty two page ruling found that Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass and the city repeatedly missed deadlines, misrepresented data that

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Speaker 1: is a fancy legal term for lying, and failed to

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Speaker 1: provide document credible documentation for the first two sets. And

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Speaker 1: the plaintiffs wanted the court to impose receivership, and Carter

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Speaker 1: decided not to do that. It would have to be

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Speaker 1: an even more extraordinary situation, I guess. But he had

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Speaker 1: ordered an audit conducted by Alvarez and Marcel. The city

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Speaker 1: had claimed that had created sixty seven hundred shelter beds.

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Speaker 1: The audit could not verify those numbers because the numbers

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Speaker 1: were made up. They didn't have sixty seven hundred beds.

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Speaker 1: Imagine you'd tell a judge there's sixty seven hundred beds.

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Speaker 1: All you got to do is get a list of addresses,

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Speaker 1: walk inside the buildings and count the beds. I guess

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Speaker 1: there were no addresses, no beds. And here here is

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Speaker 1: the worst of it. More than two point three billion

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Speaker 1: dollars in homeless spending could not be fully tracked poor

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Speaker 1: record keeping. What does that mean? Poor record keeping means

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Speaker 1: no record keeping. They didn't fill it out. Nonprofits got

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Speaker 1: lots of money, lots of city tax payer dollars, and

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Speaker 1: they never had to write down and improve where the

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Speaker 1: money went. How about that the city didn't provide complete

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Speaker 1: data such as it was. Remember most of it's not

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Speaker 1: written down. But whoever they had, they never provided it

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Speaker 1: until after the evidence phase, and only under.

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Speaker 4: Direct court order.

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Speaker 1: So what little paperwork they had that delineated where the

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Speaker 1: money went, they had to get a court order a

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Speaker 1: threat from the judge to do it. You remember Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass hired eleven lawyers to prevent her from testifying eleven

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Speaker 1: because she has to testify under oath and she can't lie.

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Speaker 1: She go to prison for burgery. So our tax money

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Speaker 1: went to eleven lawyers to protect her. The spreadsheet they

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Speaker 1: did submit revealed a lot of double counting and false reporting.

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Speaker 1: Judge Carter wrote, the pattern is clear. Documentation is withheld

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Speaker 1: until exposure is intimate imminent, public accountability is resisted until

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Speaker 1: juditionally mandated, and the truth of reported progress remains clouded

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Speaker 1: by evasive record keeping. And that part is probably the

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Speaker 1: most important. Whenever you hear Karen Bass claim that they

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Speaker 1: or Karen Bass, who's that little weasel a spokeshall, Zack's

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Speaker 1: sidel they're always making claims about getting people off the street.

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Speaker 1: They're lying, Judge said, So the truth of reported progress

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Speaker 1: is clouded by evasive record keeping. They just don't write

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Speaker 1: anything down, so they you know, if there's no evidence,

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Speaker 1: there's no crime.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 1: I could go on, but you get the idea. And

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Speaker 1: what's really galling is a majority of people in La

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Speaker 1: County voted to raise the sales tax, to double the

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Speaker 1: sales tax that's directed to homelessness, just this past November.

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Speaker 1: That's why sales tax is at it all time high,

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Speaker 1: and the money is going into the black hole. And

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Speaker 1: Judge Carter's looking down the hole and he can't see

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Speaker 1: where it went because they're intentionally lying and covering it up.

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Speaker 1: And because the information doesn't exist, the records don't exist,

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Speaker 1: you can't even charge Karen Bass with a crime?

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Speaker 4: Can you?

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Speaker 1: And she hired eleven lawyers to make sure that she

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Speaker 1: can't be questioned more Coming up Deborah Mark live in

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