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Speaker 1: quite a bit today. Did a thorough examination of Gene

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Speaker 1: could hear it happening live with Chris Adler on the scene.

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Speaker 1: Let's go now, I'm gonna go on the phone with

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Speaker 1: Heather McDonald. We've had around a number of times over

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Speaker 1: the years. She's a writer at the Manhattan Institute, writes

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Speaker 1: for the City Journal, and she does a lot of research.

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Speaker 1: And she has a new piece called California's Looming Crime Catastrophe.

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Speaker 1: And you may have thought we are living through the

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Speaker 1: worst of California's crime catastrophe. No, there's more coming potentially

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Speaker 1: and it would be even worse, and we're going to

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Speaker 2: Heather MacDonald, welcome, Thanks.

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Speaker 3: For having me on. John. Great to be with you.

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Speaker 1: So when I first saw the headline, I'm thinking, now,

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Speaker 1: what could be worse than what we're living through now?

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Speaker 1: And then after reading the story, you sold me, man,

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Speaker 1: this is bad stuff coming now. It can get a

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Speaker 1: little complicated, So I know you can explain this, so

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Speaker 1: you know, the average person can understand. There was this

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Speaker 1: legislative change to the criminal code and it's a lot

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Speaker 1: of bad guys are potentially going to get resentenced and

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Speaker 1: maybe get out early. So give us the whole story

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Speaker 1: as best you can.

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Speaker 3: Well, this is a law passed in twenty twenty that

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Speaker 3: basically says that if you're a black criminal, you can

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Speaker 3: your current treatment, but on the treatment of people in

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Speaker 3: the past, and you potentially, under this so called Racial

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Speaker 3: and as of this year, it is now retroactive, so

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Speaker 3: minority criminals who are now sitting in a California prison

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Speaker 3: And the amazing thing about this, John is that it

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Speaker 3: other defendants were treated unfairly. This would be like if

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Speaker 3: you were yourself accused of a crime and the prosecutor said, well, well,

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Speaker 3: I don't have to prove that you're guilty, but I

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Speaker 3: a travesty of due process of law and justice as

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Speaker 1: I realized you just said this, but I just have

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Speaker 1: to say it out loud again because it's so insane.

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Speaker 1: So a black defendant can come to a judge and

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Speaker 2: And that's right. And he doesn't have to prove.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't even in any way have to indicate that

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Speaker 3: Say any listener, any listener who has any trace of skepticism,

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Speaker 3: Well, this gets into sort of the legal fictions of

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Speaker 3: it's a California state statute, and so a defendant can say,

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Speaker 1: For this and this and this is going to hold.

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Speaker 3: It's been sticking. The decisions that have been coming out

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Speaker 3: of California courts are absolutely appalling. John. They allow the

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Speaker 1: continue with HEATHERN. McDonald from the Manhattan Institute, and she

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Speaker 1: We continue now with Heather McDonald, writer and a researcher

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Speaker 1: She's authored many books and many articles. Her latest piece

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Speaker 1: is entitled California Is Looming Crime Catastrophe. The easiest way

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Speaker 1: to explain this is, if you are a convicted black felon,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was the last minute deal after the George

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Speaker 3: sure do. And the defense bar, the ACLU representative have said,

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Speaker 3: actually too much credulity. You've presented it in far too

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Speaker 3: I agree, because it you would think it would present

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Speaker 3: various problems of equal protection, not under the case we

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Speaker 1: I just would think that most people, black, white, and

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Speaker 1: You should be convicted and sentence based on what you did,

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Speaker 1: And of course any people in academia who are in

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Speaker 1: by the voters. And will LA make three in November?

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Speaker 1: If they do it in Portland and San Francisco, they're

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Speaker 1: going to do it here because, believe it or not,

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Speaker 1: we were only half as crazy as those two.

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Speaker 2: Suits and there is no Conway. There's no Conway. I

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Speaker 2: was lying, it's Mark Tomash.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well Conway is away, so I am going to

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Speaker 6: be sitting in. Although I loved your show, I almost

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Speaker 6: wish you could just continue. Yeah, good insights, you got

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Speaker 6: good gas, you.

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Speaker 2: Got a good you know, back and forth, going for

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Speaker 2: the right price. It's radio.

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Speaker 6: We're all for sale.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I know. Yeah, that's what I always tell people.

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Speaker 1: Did you do this? Would you do that? I said,

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Speaker 1: there's a price on everything.

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Speaker 6: UCLA, I asked, Matt. I just passed from the hallway

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Speaker 6: met Money Smith from KLAC.

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Speaker 2: I said.

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Speaker 6: He said, oh, you're here for Conway. I said, yeah,

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Speaker 6: does he want to come in, you know, just step through?

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Speaker 6: He said, I only do paid appearances. So it's very

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Speaker 6: much in keeping with what you just said.

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Speaker 1: Oh, he hosted a couple of days, I know, and

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Speaker 1: so he started getting paid for this. This is and

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Speaker 1: it's like he's not going back to being an unpaid guest.

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Speaker 6: Sure the double dipping he's gotten used to it U

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Speaker 6: c LA. This has been testimony that was much anticipated

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Speaker 6: by the Chancellor, the testimony before Congress. So Steve Gregory

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Speaker 6: has monitor every second of it. But we're certainly aware

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Speaker 6: of the broad strokes, but the actual back and forth,

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Speaker 6: we'll talk a little bit about that. These are the

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Speaker 6: pro Palestine Yeah, protesters, of course.

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Speaker 2: That was entertaining testimony today.

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Speaker 6: And once you yeah, I mean, I don't know how

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Speaker 6: these university presidents and chancellors don't think.

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Speaker 1: He was getting hit from both sides. He was getting

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Speaker 1: hit from right and the left there, which.

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Speaker 2: Because there's not a right or left.

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Speaker 1: No, because the Jews and the Palestinian kids were all

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Speaker 1: getting beat up.

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Speaker 6: Sure, yeah, truy, and you go, I don't know and

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Speaker 6: wrapped up in it is everything wrong, you know? So

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Speaker 6: the federal government agreeing to a fifteen million dollars fine

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Speaker 6: for the disasters to railment at East Palestine, Ohio. Yes,

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Speaker 6: the other Palestine, Yeah, and the other Palestine did no,

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Speaker 6: no protesters, but lawyers involved in that one. Pico Rivera's

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Speaker 6: in the news. The DMV's in the news are going

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Speaker 6: to big all right, John, let's get it going.

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Speaker 2: Thompson in for Conway. Michael Krazer has the news live

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Speaker 2: and he can't.

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