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Speaker 2: Cobelt's show on demand. The podcast Last Hour, he had

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Speaker 2: Nathan Hochman on. He gave a fascinating dissertation about why

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Speaker 2: the Menendez brothers should not get a resentencing hearing, why

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Speaker 2: forget all the silly TikTok videos or the streaming documentaries.

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Speaker 2: Listen to Nathan Hawkman give a summary, and you tell

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Speaker 2: me why the Menandez brothers ought to get a crack

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Speaker 1: Anyway, that's on the podcast. Michael Monks is here. Now.

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Speaker 2: We just did a story about all the money we've

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Speaker 2: blown a high speed rail and got nothing for it.

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Speaker 2: Now there's an audit out about all the money we've

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Speaker 2: spent on the Los Angeles Homelessness Homeless Services Authority. This

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Speaker 2: is a County City venture billions of dollars, and according

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Speaker 2: to this new audit, we've got nothing for it. They

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Speaker 2: don't know where a lot of the money went. And

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Speaker 2: we're talking billions of dollars. Just so you know, somebody

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Speaker 2: from Oh this is a Chris Lagras wrote this online.

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Speaker 1: Chris has been on our show. He's a journalist. He says.

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Speaker 2: Ten percent of LA's total budget services one tenth of

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Speaker 3: It's exactly right, and that is courtesy of all of

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Speaker 3: us here in La County. We had an option in

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Speaker 3: November to vote on Measure A if we wanted to

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Speaker 3: put a half cent sales tax on ourselves in perpetuity

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Speaker 3: with no sunset clause, and by a margin of fifty

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Speaker 1: Like to do that. It wasn't even close. It wasn't

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Speaker 3: Now keep in mind, there was already like a quarter

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Speaker 3: Our all of the progress we've made on homelessness could stop.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that would be terrible.

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Speaker 3: It would be the timing, I suppose is coincidental, and

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Speaker 3: that just a couple of weeks will be sending more

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Speaker 3: saying the money spent on homeless programs is questionable. This

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Speaker 3: this one is LASA and the City of Los Angeles,

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Speaker 3: as ordered by a federal judge. Because you may recall,

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Speaker 3: there's been an ongoing lawsuit group of downtown advocates is

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Speaker 3: known as the LA Alliance. They sued the city saying

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Speaker 1: This is what's fascinating.

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Speaker 2: They can't explain where the money went it's not that

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Speaker 3: There are similarities in this audit to the one about

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Speaker 3: There are issues with the information that has received. But

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Speaker 3: So they've spent all of this money and they've written contracts,

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Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting because I cover a lot of

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Speaker 3: So, yes, there is money going out, but as far

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Speaker 1: By the government.

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Speaker 2: Anybody from the bank lending these organizations money really ought

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Speaker 1: It's a crazy thing.

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Speaker 3: Well not necessarily, John, because they're about to have a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if it.

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Speaker 2: Gets there, the thing is, it's another billion dollars for

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Speaker 3: That's what I mean by the coincidental and the coincidence

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Speaker 3: something in La County, you're going to have a little

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Speaker 3: been problems with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority to

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Speaker 3: we want to be part of loss anymore in this city.

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Speaker 1: And you know, in a.

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Speaker 2: Larger context, because the city is spending a billion three

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Speaker 3: A lot of this money it make, you know, there's

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Speaker 3: it comes from grants, and it's not necessarily your tax

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Speaker 3: it's not just the fire department, which has new attention

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Speaker 1: Yes, there's sidewalk that have been broken for years.

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Speaker 2: But there's no person, no leader, no entity that the

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Speaker 3: I've found, in a solid year of watching very closely

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Speaker 3: different interpretations about what it means to address homelessness in

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Speaker 1: And a lot of people want to throw more money.

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Speaker 3: Other people simply want to say, let's take some of

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Speaker 3: this funding and let's beautify our neighborhoods. Let's get these

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Speaker 3: So let's get homeless people out of our parks so

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Speaker 3: And you have other members of the city council that

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Speaker 3: vote against those measures every single time. Know, those RVs

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Speaker 3: So there is not a singular message coming from the

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Speaker 1: And I know who those people are.

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Speaker 2: Those are the Democratic Socialists of America's people are like you.

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Speaker 2: This is Hernandez and Hugo Soda Martinez. And the conditions

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Speaker 1: I'm going to move to that part.

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Speaker 3: Of town because I live in Council District fourteen, a

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Speaker 1: I have no idea why you do that. It's talkable

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Speaker 3: And I'm curious because we had a change in council member, right,

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Speaker 3: Kevin d Leon, who was trying to move tents, was

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Speaker 3: one of the Democratic Socialists supported candidates, Isabelle Herado, who

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know I de Leon had a lot

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it was interest exactly up until the

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Speaker 3: But I get the I get a front row view

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Speaker 3: to see how this electoral transition happens, to see if

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Speaker 1: They're crazy, They're not just all crazy people. I'm happy

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Excellent report. That is Michael Munks,

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Speaker 2: kf I News. More more detail on this audit, UH

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Speaker 2: coming up. It is astounding how much money it is

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Speaker 2: flushed away and people connected two LASA and other homeless

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Speaker 2: agencies and these these these nonprofits, these NGOs, Oh my god,

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Speaker 2: are they getting rich just wholesale theft of the money.

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Speaker 2: Everybody knows that. I got like four different stories in

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Speaker 2: front of me. I mean, the word is out there.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if people I don't know this. This

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Speaker 2: TikTok and Instagram cover this stuff, because if that's what

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Speaker 4: Here you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI

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Speaker 4: AM six forty.

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Speaker 1: All right, we just had Michael Monks on. I can't

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Speaker 2: I can't tell you the size of this disaster in

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Speaker 2: the criminal homeless industry here in La the UH. There

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Speaker 2: there is a website called All Aspect Report dot com.

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Speaker 2: Chris Legras writes for it, and Chris has been on

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Speaker 2: It's a half cent tax to fund homelessness. It's going

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Speaker 2: It's it's overwhelming. Campbell says, neither LASA nor the City

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Speaker 1: And I gotta go over this story again. This is

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Speaker 2: This is the two million dollar contract that the head

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Speaker 1: And she's running all of LASA.

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Speaker 2: She is spending the two billion dollars, She is in

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Speaker 2: load of gravy trains. They know that there's virtually no

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Speaker 2: pesky little websites. And you have absolute what would possibly

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Speaker 1: And this is Hernandez allows.

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Speaker 2: Some of the streets in their district are absolutely filthy,

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Speaker 2: officials have made it impossible impossible to accurately track homeless spending.

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Speaker 2: They the LASA has failed to collect accurate data on

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Speaker 2: all the people they pay money to. All these homeless nonprofits.

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Speaker 2: They don't have any accurate data, cannot hold them accountable

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Speaker 2: They can't figure out work where any of it went

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Speaker 2: or if it mattered. Is there anybody protesting? Well, One

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Speaker 2: council member, Monica Rodriguez, says, the report confirmed what she's

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Speaker 2: been saying for years. We could never get clear answers

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Speaker 2: how does it this is happening in plain sight in

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Speaker 2: city council members are getting kickbacks? How many of their

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Speaker 2: for my colleagues. Well, if you, if Monic Ardriguez has

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Speaker 2: getting rich off this, how many audits do you have

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Speaker 2: the judge has over this, because Judge David o'carter, it's

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Speaker 2: He said, the situation is ridiculous. This may be the

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass doing? He's gonna hold it. Listen to this.

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Speaker 2: He's going to hold a public court hearing on March

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Speaker 2: that dope Marquise Harris Dawson and the city Controller Kenneth Behea,

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Speaker 2: all the auditors.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I hope he's ruthless.

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Speaker 2: You need somebody who's going to be absolutely blunt, ruthless.

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Speaker 2: These people need to be dressed down and shaken down

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Speaker 2: once and for all. And this is the one issue

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass actually ran on. I told you she'd be

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Speaker 2: a complete disaster. I don't understand why people are doing

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Speaker 2: It's just incredible.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 2: Over the weekend, news broke in The La Times that

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass had deleted all her texts related to the fire.

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Speaker 2: In fact, she claims, or her lawyer claims, that her

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Speaker 2: phone auto deletes, which is questionable. You have to go

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Speaker 1: You get three choices.

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Speaker 2: You get thirty days a year, or you can keep

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Speaker 2: your text forever. So the fire started on January seventh,

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Speaker 2: January seventh, January eighth, January ninth. By January tenth, the

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Speaker 2: La Times said, hey, we're putting in a request to

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Speaker 2: see your text messages. The lawyer didn't get back to

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Speaker 2: they're all gone. Maybe she had it on thirty day

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Speaker 2: auto delete. Oh sorry about that. They're covering something up.

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Speaker 2: That's what I think, something's being covered up. But never

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Speaker 2: It took a while.

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Speaker 5: It took us a while to respond to the text messages,

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Speaker 5: and by that time they had already deleted, but we

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Speaker 2: It took us some time. Yeah, it took you two months,

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Speaker 2: and he didn't respond. I always love when to evade

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Speaker 2: it took us some time. Doesn't take time to forward

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Speaker 2: text messages. That's easier than filling up one hundred and

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Speaker 1: Maybe it took us some time. The Times has the.

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Speaker 2: Right to ask, and you're obligated to send the Times

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Speaker 2: That's another thing they're gonna try to glide over that.

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Speaker 2: The Loss says you're supposed to keep the messages. It's

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Speaker 2: Bess had to keep them, and certainly she had them

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Speaker 2: she didn't have the time to delete them. They waited

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Speaker 2: This is a cover up. They don't want us to

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Speaker 2: Why would anybody believe that they didn't do it on purpose?

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Speaker 1: Like stop it. People have been deleting.

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Speaker 2: Emails, tape recordings, texts, you know, any just in a

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Speaker 2: Deleting happens all the time. That's how you stay out

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Speaker 2: Rule number one if you're a criminal is get rid

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Speaker 2: Kardashian helped Ojay get rid of all the bloody clothing,

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Speaker 2: The opinion has nothing to do with texts, doesn't say

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Speaker 2: So we're going to keep on top of that. But

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Speaker 1: It's like, oh, did you delete the message? Oh no,

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Speaker 1: I would never delete the message. Are you sure you

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: No, no, not me, not me. It was some kind

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Speaker 1: It took us. Some time took us along.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it takes a real long time to forward text

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Speaker 2: good news on the couple of good news on the

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Speaker 2: immigration front. Bill Milusian had this for Fox News. Do

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Speaker 2: you remember the cp the CBP one cell phone app

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Speaker 2: and they could upload photos of themselves. You then submit

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Speaker 2: it to the CBP and then you leave the country.

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Speaker 2: And you're saying, well, who's going to do that, Well,

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Speaker 2: they should do that, because if they fill out the

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Speaker 2: form and leave voluntarily, then maybe someday they could come

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Speaker 2: back in legally. But if they don't leave voluntarily, then

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Speaker 2: they are at risk of being.

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Speaker 1: Captured and deported.

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Speaker 2: Department of Homeland Security says it's much cheaper for US

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Speaker 2: taxpayers if illegal aliens self deport.

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Speaker 1: And then ICE can focus just on the criminals.

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Speaker 2: Christinome, the head of the Homeland Security, says This new

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Speaker 2: app gives aliens the option to leave down self deport

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Speaker 2: so they can return legally in the future and live

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Speaker 2: the American dream. If they don't, we will find them,

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Speaker 2: we will deport them, and they will never return.

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Speaker 1: Oh, here it is.

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Speaker 2: Administration allowed more than a million aliens to enter the

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Speaker 2: United States just by filling out the form on the app.

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Speaker 2: They were pre legalized, and then claimed that, well, you know,

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Speaker 2: the border crossings are actually down.

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Speaker 1: No, they're not down.

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Speaker 2: You legalize them in advance, you legalize the legal crossings.

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Speaker 1: Well that's being reversed.

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Speaker 2: According to the government data, up to fifty thousand migrants

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Speaker 2: were entering the US every month via the CBP one

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Speaker 2: app during the Biden administration. Total nearly a million ice

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Speaker 2: also is And I'd said this this one. I'd said

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Speaker 2: this while it was happening, all those ridiculous protests at

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Speaker 2: the universities, these pro hamas students and activists and agitators

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Speaker 2: that were cheering on moss, slaughtering Jews.

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Speaker 1: It's like, who are these people? We must have let

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Speaker 1: them into the country.

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Speaker 2: Why don't we we had to canceler citizenship or I

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Speaker 2: actually I figured they were here on student visas. Cancel

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Speaker 2: their student visas, send it back to the home home

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Speaker 2: country out. Yeah, boot them out of the country. I

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Speaker 2: knew these people if they were here legally, they had

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Speaker 2: visas or green cards that you could rescind. Well, that's

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Speaker 2: what they did to uh Mahmood Khalil. Mahmood Khalil was

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Speaker 2: one of the leaders at Columbia University for last year's

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Speaker 2: pro Hamas Killed the Jews demonstrations. Mamood Khalid was detained

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Speaker 2: Saturday night by the Department of Homeland Security. According to

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Speaker 2: his attorney, Amy Greer, state department had ordered his green

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Speaker 2: card revoked. They took him into custody eight thirty after

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Speaker 2: entering his building owned by Columbia. He's Palestinian and Syrian,

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Speaker 2: so he was able to call his lawyer, Amy Greer,

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Speaker 2: from the building and she got one of the agents

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Speaker 2: on the phone to speak to her. When the agent

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Speaker 2: told her the State department had revoked his student visa,

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Speaker 2: Greer said, well, Khalil is a lawful, permanent resident, and

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Speaker 2: the agent said they revoked that too.

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Speaker 1: And hung up.

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Speaker 2: The lawyer got the old dial too. They revoked the

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Speaker 2: student visa and the green card because he was creating

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Speaker 2: chaos on the campus and normal students, most of them

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Speaker 2: American citizens, couldn't go to class, and the Jewish kids

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Speaker 2: were outright terrorized. Yeah, Agent hung up, Good, I get

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Speaker 2: him all out of the country. You come to this

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Speaker 2: country and and and you you start protest movements to

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Speaker 2: chase Jewish kids.

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Speaker 1: Out of school.

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Speaker 5: Hey, John, I don't know if you have this, but

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Speaker 5: this is breaking. A federal judge just just issued a

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Speaker 5: temporary block on deporting him.

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Speaker 1: Temporary block. Well, it's gonna have to go to a hearing.

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Speaker 2: You can get kicked out even if you they're they're

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Speaker 2: what they're gonna do is they they're gonna say he's

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Speaker 2: engaging terrorism activities. I mentioned this guy probably has a

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Speaker 2: lot of questionable ties to organizations because you remember he's

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Speaker 2: he's leading a protest that is cheering on the masslaughter

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Speaker 2: of Jewish people.

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Speaker 1: So that's not a pure heart there.

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Speaker 2: Oh and then on top of it, the Trump administration

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Speaker 2: yanked four hundred million dollars in grants and contracts from

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Speaker 2: Colombia overall the anti semitism on campus. So Columbia just

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Speaker 2: lost four hundred million dollars. That's what you do, That's

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Speaker 2: what always should have been done, should do it to

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Speaker 2: all the universities.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 1: I was telling you about how.

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Speaker 2: They have They have nailed a Columbia University student and

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Speaker 2: they're going to deport him Trump's Trump's government is going

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Speaker 2: after the idiots who started all those pro hamas protests.

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Speaker 2: If you start a a sit in where you know,

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Speaker 2: people form a tense city and they're cheering on hamas

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Speaker 2: and cheering on all the bloodshed, we're supporting a terrorist organization.

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Speaker 2: And that's the hook for keeping kicking my mood Kayliel

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Speaker 2: out of the country. Uh Marco Rubio said today the

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Speaker 2: USA is zero tolerance for terror supporters and they'll deport

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Speaker 2: Farner's international students if you support terrorists, So that that's

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Speaker 2: the rationale.

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Speaker 1: Conway here, Hey, now, Hana, we.

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Speaker 6: Got big storm coming in. You know, this is not

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Speaker 6: gonna be a typical week. It's gonna be a raining Tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday,

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Speaker 6: a little bit on Friday, and then right back on

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Speaker 6: Saturday it might hit us again. So it's gonna be

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Speaker 6: you know, five straight days of crappy weather. You'll feel

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Speaker 6: like you're in Seattle, you know, enjoying yourself with the

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Speaker 6: help you got. Monks is coming on today, Michael Monks.

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Speaker 6: He's going to talk about the billions and billions of

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Speaker 6: dollars in homeless funds after the audit revealed that they

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Speaker 6: don't know where that money is. I don't know if

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Speaker 6: you've covered that. Yeah, I suspected you.

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Speaker 1: They still don't know where the money.

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Speaker 6: Is, right, And I think that la is probably more

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Speaker 6: corrupt than Chicago because nobody he keeps an eye on anything,

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Speaker 6: you speaking, David Goldstein did it, Joel Grover did it,

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Speaker 6: and Eric Leonard did it. Yeah, and now they they've

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Speaker 6: you know, Goldstein's not around, Joel Grover's not around, and

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Speaker 6: there and they're you know, and and Eric Leonard works

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Speaker 6: for a you know, a company that doesn't use the

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Speaker 6: term illegal immigration.

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Speaker 1: Yes, there's there's.

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Speaker 2: Eric might be the last one left in any media

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Speaker 2: doing any investigative work on this stuff.

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Speaker 6: I heard NBC last night saying, you know that Trump

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Speaker 6: is anti immigration. They didn't use the term illegal immigration,

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Speaker 6: they just said immigration. So to NBC, there's no difference

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Speaker 6: between going in and buying a TV set or taking one,

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Speaker 6: you know, I mean, there's just no, there's no no,

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Speaker 6: they no, there's no difference in in in their language

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Speaker 6: over breaking the law doesn't matter. That's right, that's that's right.

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Speaker 6: It's not a news operation. It's just propaganda. If somebody

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Speaker 6: crawled over the fence and went to Disneyland, you know,

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Speaker 6: and didn't pay their toll, they would have they would

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Speaker 6: put them in that little Disney jail and send them on.

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Speaker 1: Look.

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Speaker 6: I think that you know, this is a great country.

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Speaker 6: You got to come in the right way and then

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Speaker 6: you really enjoy it. I don't know how you enjoy

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Speaker 6: this country if you're not here legally, because you're always worried. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I say, you know, that's why you've always like stayed

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Speaker 2: in Burbanking. You've never that's right, that's right, that's right.

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Speaker 2: My grandfather came legally. I think I bet yours did

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Speaker 2: as well. Yeah, it's a.

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Speaker 6: It's a it's a really cool way to go if

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Speaker 6: you can put in the time, you know. I mean

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Speaker 6: it was not as much back then, you know, I

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Speaker 6: think it wasntes.

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Speaker 2: My dad five five years to that right to get legalized, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and he had to take tests and learn the language.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, my my grandfather did the same, which I think

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Speaker 6: they gave him a pass on that test. But yeah,

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Speaker 6: but but but also in the five years that I

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Speaker 6: think it was four years that my grandfather waited, the

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Speaker 6: four years my grandfather waited, man that he mined his manners.

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Speaker 1: You know, he didn't stay.

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Speaker 6: No duy, no you know, drunk in public, no jaywalking, nothing.

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Speaker 6: He really mind his p's and q's's, not breaking into

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Speaker 6: homes and crap.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Conways here all right, Crozer's got the news live in

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