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Speaker 2: Lou Penrose sitting in for John Covelt this week. Good

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Speaker 2: to be with you.

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Speaker 3: Billionaires back in the crosshairs in California have proposed billionaire tax,

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Speaker 3: one time five percent tax on billionaires as billionaires weighing

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Speaker 3: leaving California over over the next to over the next year.

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Speaker 3: And why wouldn't they do? His Nation's Denise get Him,

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Speaker 3: So who where is this coming from? The governor hasn't

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Speaker 3: weighed in on it, so it's not coming from the governor.

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Speaker 2: There are progressives.

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Speaker 3: Angling to be the most anti billionaire person in the legislature.

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Speaker 3: Is this coming from the Assembly? Is it coming from

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Speaker 2: Where's this coming from?

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Speaker 4: It's coming from the unions, which is really the power

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Speaker 4: source for all democratic politics in California. Interestingly, new Some

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Speaker 4: actually raising the money against this effort, if you can

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Speaker 4: believe it. Hopefully he throws as much of his you know, time, money,

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Speaker 4: and effort and celebrity, you know, resources into stopping this

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Speaker 4: billionaire's tax as he did with Prop fifty. So you

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Speaker 4: know who knows all I know is Tom Steyer Rocanna.

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Speaker 4: A lot of other really prominent billionaire Democrats are saying

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Speaker 4: so right now. They don't have to tell anyone else

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Speaker 4: to do with their money. But they are totally free

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Speaker 4: to wipe California's deficit out, the one that the AVENUWSOM

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Speaker 4: caused by simply giving their money. Now, they don't need

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Speaker 4: to wait and change the law enforce everyone else to

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Speaker 4: fund their priorities. They can simply do it themselves. And

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Speaker 4: yet they choose to impose this kind of pain and

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Speaker 4: ultimately not just on the billionaires. This is going to

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Speaker 4: impact California's tax space so negatively that even Gavi Newsom

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Speaker 4: and it's going to cause further dependence on people with

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the billionaires who are weighing their options.

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Speaker 3: Where do you go? I mean obviously out of state,

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Speaker 2: How does that all work?

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Speaker 4: Well, they're not just setting them up. Most billionaires have

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Speaker 4: a bunch of houses. That's actually Governor Newsom actually talked

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Speaker 4: because most billionaires really have multiple residencies. Whether they move

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Speaker 2: That wait a minute, it goes backwards in time. That's incredible.

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Speaker 4: It goes backwards. It goes backwards. And it's not about

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Speaker 3: Well there, without question, here in California, progresses are trying

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Speaker 2: To a government running a debt. But let's get for

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Speaker 3: You would think that labor unions flourish when millionaires and

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Speaker 2: Right, the.

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Speaker 3: Millionaires employed laborers, so why would a labor be mad

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Speaker 4: They're talking about directing this money the schools and other healthcare.

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Speaker 4: It was actually initiated by somebody in the healthcare community,

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Speaker 4: the nonprofit healthcare community, ironically, and all of the unions.

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Speaker 4: One thing I know about working in Sacramento just a little.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be interesting to see as the governor

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Speaker 2: They hit that one hard.

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Speaker 4: Dangerous one.

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Speaker 2: It's a very dangerous one.

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Speaker 4: I agree, dangerous one. It's a dangerous one because it

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Speaker 4: causes Marxism to really rise up. That sense of redistribution

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Speaker 4: So this is a dangerous mentality. I'm not surprised to

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Speaker 2: Denise, get some news Nation. Thank you so much, good

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Speaker 4: Happy New Year, Thank you, Happy Year to you.

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Speaker 3: Lou Penrose in for John Coblt on kf I AM

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

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Speaker 3: Lou Penrose Info John Coblt all this week on The

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Speaker 3: John Cobelt Show, talking about the billionaire tax proposal.

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Speaker 2: We just talked with Denise get some of news nation, and.

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Speaker 3: So the components of how it got here are interesting

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Speaker 2: It's a real rallying cry.

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Speaker 3: There's a war going on in California among the Democrats.

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Speaker 3: The Democrats are having their own Tea Party. Do you

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Speaker 2: And this billionaire's tax falls right in line.

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Speaker 2: Therefore, I'm going.

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Speaker 2: It gives them a tool to.

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Speaker 2: And if you're a Democrat and you.

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Speaker 3: And I've watched this for a while and I've heard

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Speaker 2: It's Marxism. I hear all these terms, and I don't

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Speaker 3: I'm a I'm a former political speech writer. I believe

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Speaker 3: in words that work, and Marxism doesn't work. Calling Zron

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Speaker 6: Young people are not what they're being characterized as lazy

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Speaker 3: And I think that question deserves an answer from those

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Speaker 3: simply this. There is conditions that can be created by government.

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Speaker 2: Government can't create jobs.

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Speaker 3: Government can't create housing, Government cannot create transportation, Government cannot

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Speaker 2: Government cannot create these things.

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Speaker 3: Government can, however, create the conditions in which jobs can

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Speaker 2: Government can create conditions, and we need.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, lou just a quick point of order talking about

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Speaker 7: people being thoughtful. In order to be thoughtful, at least

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Speaker 8: I think kissed that everybody with any common sense already

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Speaker 2: I appreciate the call, I respectfully disagree.

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Speaker 2: See statewide initiatives.

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Speaker 3: You know, when we elect lawmakers, we seem to elect

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Speaker 3: I get it. Anybody looking on would say, Wow, what

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Speaker 2: Statewide. They voted it down right.

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Speaker 3: They wanted they proposed to bring back affirmative action. Californians

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Speaker 2: Right crime. They wanted to ease and go soft on criminals.

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Speaker 2: A majority and some of these were sixty to forty.

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Speaker 3: Like Californians overwhelmingly use common sense when asked a single issue.

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Speaker 2: The problem is the.

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Speaker 3: Democrat lawmakers tend to obfuscate. They changed the names of things.

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Speaker 2: We can't spend.

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Speaker 3: So we do the best we can, and the best

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Speaker 2: I chose to live in southern California. I knew it

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Speaker 3: Super Bowl Sunday nineteen ninety, my roommate had an apartment.

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Speaker 3: So nothing is wrong with California that cannot be remedied

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Speaker 2: So I don't think it's the people. I think we

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Speaker 3: I think they're acting like politicians, but I will not

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Speaker 3: Former House Speaker Nuke Ingridge used to say that half

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Speaker 6: they're going to be going other places.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 2: And we are the establishment.

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Speaker 3: We're established, right, those of us that are in society,

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Speaker 3: that have jobs, that have places to live, that have families,

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Speaker 3: we are established. He's not talking about the established politicians

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Speaker 3: or the established you know, millionaires and biginnis.

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Speaker 2: You're talking about us society. We have not offered an answer.

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Speaker 2: We have not offered a solution.

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Speaker 3: And I think the same could be said in California

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Speaker 3: and Comma, I think if Zorn Mondami ran for governor

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Speaker 3: of California, he would have won on the exact same platform,

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Speaker 3: which means the next person to run for governor of California,

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Speaker 3: he's going to sound an awful like him, an awful

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Speaker 3: lot like him in the absence of pushback. And it

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Speaker 3: doesn't have to be mean spirited pushback. It can be

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Speaker 3: happy pushback. Those of you that are fiscal conservatives in

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Speaker 3: your own life, and I would argue that women are

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Speaker 3: fiscal conservatives. The core voting block of the California Democrat

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Speaker 3: Party is women under forty.

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Speaker 2: And what's amazing.

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Speaker 3: About that is the Democrat Party in California is progressive,

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Speaker 3: not fiscally conservative. Yet women instinctively are fiscally concservative. You

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Speaker 3: watch them with their Macy star points, you watch them

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Speaker 3: with coupons, you watch them take advantage of sales.

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Speaker 2: You know what that is. That is active fiscal conservativism.

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Speaker 2: You laugh, but it is right.

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Speaker 3: I mean they they're mindful when they shop to take

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Speaker 3: full advantage and make their money go far and not

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Speaker 3: be wasteful. Yet they vote for a political party that

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Speaker 3: is wasteful constantly, could care less about cost over runs.

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Speaker 3: So there's a disconnect there, and that that disconnect is

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Speaker 3: on us, the alternative party, the minority party. It's hard

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Speaker 3: to consider the Republican Party in California the minority party.

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Speaker 2: I mean, well, I think, what are we doing? How

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Speaker 2: many state senators?

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Speaker 3: I think we could fit all the state senators in

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Speaker 3: the California Legislature in my Toyota minivan. So certainly you

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Speaker 3: can fit all of the Republican members of the Congressional

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Speaker 3: delegation in my Toyota Toyota minivan. And after the next

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Speaker 3: election cycle, thanks to the prop fifty. I won't even

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Speaker 3: need a van. We'll get more of this when we

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Speaker 3: come back. Lou Penrose Info John Cobelt on KFI AM

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Speaker 3: six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

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

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Speaker 3: Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt all this week, which

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Speaker 3: is tomorrow, We're off Thursday and Friday. I believe I

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Speaker 3: don't know a lot of a lot of guest hosts

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Speaker 3: Andy follows the program at four, so he's guessing for

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Speaker 3: Tim Conway Junior.

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Speaker 2: That's fun and around the America Round we go.

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Speaker 7: Lou, can you give us a specific example of how

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Speaker 7: an asylum seeker would qualify for asylum?

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Speaker 3: Do they have to have a bounty out on their

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Speaker 3: head or a picture in their post office?

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Speaker 2: They can have a bounty on their head.

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Speaker 3: That does not they would probably qualify for an asylum hearing. Sorry,

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Speaker 3: so let me make this perfectly clear to everybody, because

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Speaker 3: I've done I've worked for fifteen years for Members of Congress,

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Speaker 3: which means I've done fifteen years of immigration casework. Asylum

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Speaker 3: cases are rare. Almost nobody gets in this country because

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Speaker 3: of asylum because there just isn't that kind of political

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Speaker 3: persecution going on around the world. And by the way,

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Speaker 3: sometimes it's okay, like sometimes these people broke laws and

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Speaker 3: they're being persecuted justly. So all these people that are

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Speaker 3: claiming asylum, the tens of thousands, tens of thousands per

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Speaker 3: year in the Biden administration that were all making believe

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Speaker 3: they were seeking asylum, it was a complete fool on you.

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Speaker 3: There's no evidence that they are eligible for asylum none.

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Speaker 3: And even if they were eligible for asylum, it doesn't

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Speaker 3: mean they get it.

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Speaker 2: We get to decide who comes in the country. Some

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Speaker 2: people broke the law in their own country.

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Speaker 3: Now it wasn't the law in our country, but it's

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Speaker 3: the law in their country, and they have to obey

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Speaker 3: the law in their country. So if they're being persecuted

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Speaker 3: because they broke the law in their country, then that's

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Speaker 3: not our business. And just because you ran into the

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Speaker 3: United States through Texas doesn't mean you get to stay

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Speaker 3: and rip off the state of Minnesota by creating fraudulent

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Speaker 3: childcare centers.

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Speaker 2: All right, Asylum law is real simple.

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Speaker 3: You have to demonstrate that you're being persecuted in your

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Speaker 3: own country, that means facing imprisonment or death on five

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Speaker 3: protected grounds, race, religion, nationality, membership, and an anti government group,

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Speaker 3: which is tricky, it's a hard concept. But what's called

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Speaker 3: a PSG in immigration law, but race, religion, nationality, PSG

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Speaker 3: or political opinion. None of these Somali refugees in Minneapolis

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Speaker 3: that are faking that they're being daycare centers are being

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Speaker 3: persecuted or face imprisonment or death based on their race.

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Speaker 2: They're all the same color, they're all the same religion.

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Speaker 2: They're all from Somalia, so they're all the same nationality.

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Speaker 3: Last I checked, they were not pro democracy freedom fighters,

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Speaker 3: so they're not members of an anti government group.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know if they.

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Speaker 3: Vote or not in Somalia, but you're allowed to vote

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Speaker 3: or not in Somalia. The political party one is a

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Speaker 3: real tricky one because some countries don't have political parties, right.

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Speaker 3: You can't just start up another political party in Russia.

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Speaker 3: Does that mean every Russian can come to the United

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Speaker 3: States and claim asylum. No, we won't grant them asylum.

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Speaker 3: You know why, they've broken the law.

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Speaker 2: That's the other thing.

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Speaker 3: Even if if, even if you want to make believe

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Speaker 3: that all these eli.

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Speaker 2: Legitimately, we're claiming asylum.

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Speaker 3: The only way you can claim asylum is to do

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Speaker 3: so at the US embassy over there in your home country,

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Speaker 3: or the next closest US embassy if we.

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Speaker 2: Don't have diplomatic relations with the country.

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Speaker 3: So you can't claim asylum in Tehran because there's no

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Speaker 3: US embassy there.

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Speaker 2: You know, you gotta go Damascus. But then you claim asylum.

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Speaker 3: There and you wait there until the FBI background checks you.

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Speaker 2: And we're in no rush.

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Speaker 3: We don't need you. There are other countries you can

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Speaker 3: go to. Why do they all want to come to Minneapolis?

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Speaker 2: That's the only place. The only other place is at

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Speaker 2: a port of entry.

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Speaker 3: You go to the guy I pass poor control, the

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Speaker 3: US guy with the badge and the gun, and you say,

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Speaker 3: I need asylum. There chasing me man and if they

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Speaker 3: catch me, I'm dead. So I need asylum. That happens

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Speaker 3: at a porter of entry. You cannot illegally come into

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Speaker 3: the United States. And then only after being caught by

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Speaker 3: border patrol, after having thrown rocks at the border patrol

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Speaker 3: agents in the middle of the night, coming through a

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Speaker 3: hole in the fence between the United States and Mexico.

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Speaker 3: Then they catch you, then you claim asylum. No good,

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Speaker 3: no bueno's that's disqualifying anyway.

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Speaker 2: You've already committed a crime.

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Speaker 3: It is a crime to run through a hole in

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Speaker 3: the fence and throw rocks and border patrol agents. So

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Speaker 3: whatever your asylum claim was, it's just been negated, and

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Speaker 3: you can't claim asylum that way. And it's idiotic that

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Speaker 3: we're even having this national discussion that these people are

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Speaker 3: asylum seekers.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: And what really kills me is that Joe Biden used

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Speaker 3: to be a US senator.

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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris used to be a US senator. It was

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Speaker 2: Senator Joe Biden.

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Speaker 3: It was Senator Kamala Harris, which means that Senators Biden

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Speaker 3: and Harris had immigration case workers on their staff, just

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Speaker 3: like me, Loop Penrose. I know immigration case workers on

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Speaker 3: Padilla's staff. Every member of Congress and every senator have

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Speaker 3: case workers. You know what they handle casework? What's what's

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Speaker 3: casework to a federal official, immigration passport, veteran stuff, VA stuff,

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Speaker 3: irs stuff, problems your grandmothers having with their Social Security check. Right,

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Speaker 3: That's what staff do for members of Congress and members

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Speaker 3: of the Senate in the in the district offices, here

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Speaker 3: in California and in all fifty states, they do different things.

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Speaker 3: On the hill they basically explain proposals and bills to

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Speaker 3: the boss, but back home they work on problems that

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Speaker 3: the constituents have. So you have a problem with social security,

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Speaker 3: go talk to the congressman. The loop penrose on the

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Speaker 3: staff will know who to call and sort it out.

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Speaker 2: Disability check.

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Speaker 3: Your disability got increase from sixty percent to eighty percent,

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Speaker 3: but the check didn't reflect it. You call your congressman

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Speaker 3: and the loop penro on the staff will call the

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Speaker 3: right person at the VA and get it all figured out.

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Speaker 2: Same goes with immigration. So my point is Harris and Biden.

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Speaker 3: Knew very well that these people didn't qualify for asylum,

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Speaker 3: yet Biden gave them all something called temporary protective status.

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Speaker 3: Why the hell you would do that, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: And of all countries like third world nations that are

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Speaker 3: known for piracy, and guess what, we allowed a bunch

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Speaker 3: of pirates to Minneapolis and Columbus, Ohio and we got piracy.

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Speaker 2: Imagine that. So you asked the question like how do

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Speaker 2: you get asilum? Well, let's see. You remember Mikhyle Brushnikov.

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Speaker 3: He was a Soviet in the Olympics, and he defected

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Speaker 3: in Canada.

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Speaker 2: Like that defection. Once you defect from the Soviet.

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Speaker 3: Union in the eighties, you can't go back because you

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Speaker 3: will be facing persecution, imprisonment, or death.

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Speaker 1: So he.

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Speaker 2: Was eligible.

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Speaker 3: Notice that mccalm Vershnikov did not swim across the Rio Grande.

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Speaker 3: He didn't cut a hole in the fence between the

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Speaker 3: United States and Mexico and run in in the middle

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Speaker 3: of the night while throwing rocks at border patrol agents.

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Speaker 2: Do you see that? Share that works so easy? It's

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Speaker 2: so easy to so many of us.

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Speaker 5: Hey love the show.

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Speaker 2: Hey, regarding Tim Walls, you watch before the midterms. He's

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Speaker 2: going to get some prestigious award for his fiscal management

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Speaker 2: of the state of Minnesota. You watch.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think that's true. I think this story

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Speaker 3: is not ending anytime soon. We saw it grow from

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Speaker 3: one reporter when twenty three year old kid with a

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Speaker 3: cell phone and a microphone knocking on doors that were.

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Speaker 2: Listed on the State of Minnesota website.

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Speaker 3: Literally all the information was on the homepage of the website,

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Speaker 3: and he was getting doors slammed in his face. He

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Speaker 3: was getting screamed at by Somali maniacs. And he proved

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Speaker 3: the point that there are no kids here and these

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Speaker 3: people are receiving millions of dollars, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 3: that blew the littlef Then he went to home healthcare centers.

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Speaker 2: All over Minneapolis and guess what they called security.

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Speaker 3: They don't want to talk to him, And there was

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Speaker 3: like nineteen home like these are fake senior care establishments.

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Speaker 3: No nurses, no oxygen tanks, no nothing, no applications, no records,

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Speaker 3: just some Somali ladies and some big guy telling you

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Speaker 3: to get lost.

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Speaker 2: And that's spread.

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Speaker 3: Now you have another Nick Shirley like guy, a young

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Speaker 3: kid with a cell phone and a microphone.

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Speaker 2: He said, huh.

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Speaker 3: Let's see, Minneapolis is the largest home of Somali refugees

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Speaker 3: in the United States.

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Speaker 2: Columbus, Ohio is the second largest. I wonder, just wonder

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Speaker 2: if the same thing is going on here? And what

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Speaker 2: do you know?

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Speaker 3: He found all all kinds of preschool learning centers with

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Speaker 3: misspellings in the signs and the same old ball wax,

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Speaker 3: just a bunch of Somali people hanging out back there,

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Speaker 3: acting like they don't know anything, refusing to answer the door,

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Speaker 3: and millions of dollars being siphoned from the taxpayers of Ohio.

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Speaker 3: And now the FBI is there and President Trump is

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Speaker 3: rolling in with the ice bands. So I don't think

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Speaker 3: this story is going away anytime soon. I don't know

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Speaker 3: how Governor Waltz spins his way out of it. He

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Speaker 3: can say he didn't know, which is incompetent, in which

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Speaker 3: case he's part of the problem, not part of the solution,

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Speaker 3: and should be gone, or he can say he did know,

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Speaker 3: in which case he's part of the problem, not part

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Speaker 3: of the solution, and he should be gone. Either way,

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Speaker 3: his political career is toast. There's no question about it.

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