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Speaker 1: John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Two rounds of

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Speaker 1: Christianne Cordero for ABC News on after Michael's three point

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Speaker 1: thirty report. Christiane Cordero is reporting from Anchorage, Alaska. Trump

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Speaker 1: Nobody knew, nobody knows how long it's going to go.

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Speaker 1: And meantime, as I mentioned before, Ukraine is still being

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Speaker 1: We've been talking about all week. Oh, Washington, d C's

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Speaker 1: round number one.

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

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Speaker 1: They've got two podiums up out of stage with a

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Speaker 1: in Ukraine, anything happens, we'll tell you all about it.

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Speaker 1: Time though, Now to do the Moistline eight seven seven

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Speaker 1: Moist eighty six. We do this on many Fridays. It's

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Speaker 1: you about time.

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Speaker 3: If Trump wants five more and wants to do restricting.

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Speaker 1: Then why can't let them do that?

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Speaker 4: Once the censor stops counting the legos, then you will

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Speaker 4: have less Democrats and Congress.

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Speaker 5: Maybe all these kids who are on the internet should

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Speaker 3: You won't have such an obee society.

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Speaker 6: Elie is a home.

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Speaker 6: Listsstfool crime.

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Speaker 7: I think people get to a point where you report something,

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Speaker 8: Well? I think that tool on the plane is soon

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Speaker 1: He is a felony.

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Speaker 8: Just build up my truck at the costco and Gilbert

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Speaker 1: Why can't the president come in and defend people when

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Speaker 6: On our street?

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Speaker 5: Do we really think that's what our.

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Speaker 4: Poor fathers mean, that they want the city to burn

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Speaker 8: So these protesters are saying that these companies either have

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Speaker 4: So Trump can make an announcement and in one day

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Speaker 5: This is ridiculous.

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Speaker 7: I'm all for given La the DC treatment.

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Speaker 3: We need to take back our city, make our streets

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Speaker 2: I welcome the federal government.

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Speaker 3: Gavin and Karen, a dream team of two. Ellie's very

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Speaker 3: but in no time at all. Centers speaking to hell

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Speaker 5: You gotta love that prison where Brian Colbert is being kept.

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Speaker 6: We should find many more of those.

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Speaker 1: And we should send like meals on wheels.

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Speaker 5: Cheeseburgers to all those other prisoners that are harassed.

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Speaker 1: from Christian Cordero, ABC News at Anchorage the Trump Putin meeting,

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Christian Cordero, ABC News correspondent

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Speaker 5: I'm doing well, Thanks John. Yeah, it's a fascinating moment

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Speaker 1: Was this an opportunity for Putin to lay out what

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Speaker 5: that does include Zolensky, and that in itself would be

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Speaker 1: To has anybody talked about, even you know, off the record,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that that is really what everyone is up against,

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Speaker 5: You know, the territory swap is what they've been calling it.

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Speaker 1: And Putin isn't giving them a break in Ukraine even

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. And all the TV cameras are

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Speaker 1: All you have to do is tell them and they'll

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Speaker 1: Advocates are upset. They say there are better ways to

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Speaker 1: It's that the that the homeless occupants are going to

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have to do something. They don't get to

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Speaker 1: the Homeless. Good Lord. She she says, what did I

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Speaker 1: I got quickly, This can be done. US Park police

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Speaker 1: Newsome and it pisses me off. Bass runs around screaming

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Speaker 1: been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can

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