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Speaker 2: Will just a few hours, President Trump is scheduled to

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Speaker 2: will relate to Washington, d C. Having spent three weeks

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Speaker 1: And that is the President's point.

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Speaker 2: Some high profile muggings, beatings Friday or Saturday night at

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Speaker 1: Crime is down.

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Speaker 2: However, the Washington d C Police officers are saying crime

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Speaker 3: Michael, thanks for having me. Great to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Chairman Pemberton.

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Speaker 2: Is crime worse in DC today than it was a

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Speaker 3: Well, in twenty twenty three, we saw violent crime totals

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Speaker 3: Well. Unfortunately, they're all too common. I mean, one of

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Speaker 3: Definitely, But let me back up a little bit and

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Speaker 2: Agreed, get an officer hurt as well. Greg Pemberton, the

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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir, thanks.

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Speaker 1: For having me appreciate that great day. You're listening to

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Speaker 2: The Church's House will gabble in today at one pm.

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Speaker 2: There are potentially five Congressional seats hanging in the balance.

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Speaker 2: When you look at redistricting and the opportunities to change

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Speaker 2: we cannot squander. The last day for this first called

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Speaker 1: Those have a sell by date of thirty days.

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Speaker 2: When you gabble in a special session, you have thirty

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Speaker 2: school vouchers. You got yet another tax increase. You got

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Speaker 2: It's right here in Spring Branch, It's in every public

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Speaker 1: That allow me to introduce myself.

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Speaker 4: My name is Mitta Michael Berry.

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Speaker 1: Genius.

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Speaker 2: And other astronaut Jim Lovell kiss me, famously portrayed on

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Speaker 5: Accepted into the NASA Space Program in nineteen sixty two,

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Speaker 1: Okay, Houston, we have a problem.

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Speaker 1: April seventeenth. Touring an exhibit in Chicago. Level recently reflected

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Speaker 4: I spent two weeks on about four days of this

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Speaker 5: I know this is a very important part of my life.

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Speaker 6: You know, we think of astronauts as celebrities, because that's

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Speaker 4: And Mom, okay, we've had a problem here again, go ahead.

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Speaker 4: We've had a hardware race card.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it was.

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Speaker 4: Leave.

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Speaker 1: What was your worst fear at that moment.

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Speaker 4: I didn't have a wish fear that this was disastrous.

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Speaker 1: That was a.

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Speaker 2: Difficult interview to coordinate, felt, but well worth the time

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Speaker 2: how many people know about the the swimming pool there,

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Speaker 2: and through. Scott Mike, Yeah, did you really just say, you.

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Speaker 1: Know there's apps for that.

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Speaker 1: He's the He's the mutual of Omaha.

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Speaker 2: He's the Paul Harvey of of pile ups.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's the he's the what.

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Speaker 7: the Walter Cronkite. Oh I could have done Kronkite of crashes.

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Speaker 7: Let me think on this better, and we could. We could,

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Speaker 2: But what a neat thing when I came to Houston

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Speaker 1: What a neat thing it was to learn so much more.

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Speaker 2: Unless I'm put a dio tone, it sounds like this

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Speaker 1: Dessert right now?

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Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, here's how you want to spell dessert. And

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Speaker 2: So I gave part of the scone to the pigeon,

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Speaker 2: So I feed the other pigeon and that was it.

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Speaker 2: her security detail, more than all the commissioners combined. Her

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Speaker 2: office defends the spending because they say she has a

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Speaker 2: quote national profile and high public visibility.

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Speaker 1: Bitch, get over yourself.

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Speaker 2: Nobody cares about you other than being obnoxious. The Houston

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Speaker 2: Chronicle reports that quote Hidalgo spent nine hundred three thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars for security personnel, more than half the amount budgeted

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Speaker 2: for all five members of Commissioner's Court.

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Speaker 1: They mean more than double.

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Speaker 2: All four members of the court's Democrat super majority were

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Speaker 2: allotted six figure security budgets, records indicated Commissioner Tom Ramsey,

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Speaker 2: the lone Republican, was the sole member who's officely not

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Speaker 2: spending any funds on personal security.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, Lena's.

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Speaker 2: Office set in a statement, given Judge Hidago's national profile

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Speaker 2: and high public visibility, she uses her security detail for

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Speaker 2: the protection of her and her staff. When it comes

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Speaker 2: to safety and security, the cost of inaction far outweighs

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Speaker 2: the cost of prevention.

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Speaker 1: The Chronicle reports that.

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Speaker 2: Harris County first began footing the bill for Hidago's security

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Speaker 2: detail following in August twenty first Commissioner's Court meeting. Although

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Speaker 2: Hidago said it was a first for Harris County. Commissioners

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Speaker 2: did not directly vote on the matter because it was

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Speaker 2: decided through a budget transfer not included on the public agenda.

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Speaker 2: Every time they don't have the money for the things

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Speaker 2: that we need in the county, just remember how they

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Speaker 2: do squander the money. And you don't even begin to

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Speaker 2: see how Rodney's moving from one account to the other

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Speaker 2: account and moving over here in nine hundred three thousand

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Speaker 2: for her security detail. Oh, he could figure out how

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Speaker 2: to do that in about thirty seconds. He can transfer

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Speaker 2: some money from one count from one account to the

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Speaker 2: other without anybody ever knowing it. He can store African

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Speaker 2: art in a county warehouse, saving himself hundreds of thousands

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Speaker 2: of dollars. A grand jury be convened, the FBI investigate,

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Speaker 2: and still managed to get out of it. What's interesting

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Speaker 2: about Lena's security detail and the expense is now being reported.

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Speaker 2: The Houston Chronicle has gone from just over a week

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Speaker 2: ago calling her a Hispanic policy wong, a term that

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Speaker 2: still gets me, and referring to her historic unprecedented accomplishments

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Speaker 2: or maybe a historic I don't think this said historic accomplishments.

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Speaker 2: They're always historic because she's a Hispanic. Yeah, I'll never forget.

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Speaker 2: You can criticize her all you want, but I'll never

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Speaker 2: forget the day she was sworn in as county judge.

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Speaker 2: And there's a bathroom right behind the county judge's bathroom,

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Speaker 2: and I'll never she'd had a big breakfast, I mean

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Speaker 2: big breakfast.

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Speaker 1: She'd had Textmax.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember where it was from, root cheese maybe,

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Speaker 2: but it was bad Textmax. And she had gone heavy

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Speaker 2: on the refried beans, and she'd gone heavy on the

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Speaker 2: refried beans and the green and red salsa, a potent potable,

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Speaker 2: heavy on the cheese, and she'd gone flour tortillas and

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Speaker 2: she had some orchata.

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Speaker 1: I remember she'd gone heavy on the orchata.

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Speaker 2: And I remember they were having the she was having

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Speaker 2: the first meeting with the staff in there, and the

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Speaker 2: county judge has a its own little private bathroom right behind.

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Speaker 2: It's just for her, the Queen Bee, but it's always

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Speaker 2: been there, and I remember hearing the story that when

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Speaker 2: she got up for the me and she says, in

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Speaker 2: a real frenzied tone like she does guys, I have

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Speaker 2: to go take a poop, and everybody, just everybody, the

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Speaker 2: moment was not lost. Everybody was sitting there thinking to themselves,

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Speaker 2: this is the first time we've had a Hispanic county

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Speaker 2: judge dropping the kids off at the pool in that bathroom,

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Speaker 2: as the first Hispanic female county judge. This is a

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Speaker 2: historic explosive moment. And it was like the heavens opened up.

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Speaker 2: You could hear it, and.

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Speaker 1: Then she'd moan inside there.

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Speaker 2: I mean it was torn up, I mean just absolutely

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Speaker 2: destroyed that toilet, And all anybody could think was we

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Speaker 2: were here at this historic moment, the first Hispanic county judge,

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Speaker 2: blowing up the bathroom in the county judge office.

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Speaker 1: This is really historic, just historic,