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Speaker 2: York and Derek Dennis from ABC News. This there in

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Speaker 2: the final days of the Trump trial and the last

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Speaker 2: prosecution witness is Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney, and he

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Speaker 2: got examined and cross examined today a lot intensely, and

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Speaker 2: Derek's gonna tell us about it.

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Speaker 1: He was on the stand for many hours. Derek, how

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Speaker 1: are you hi there? I'm good.

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Speaker 3: It was really an explosive day when you counted all

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Speaker 3: together with Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen on the stand.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned.

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Speaker 3: He was examined and then cross examined by Trump's defense

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Speaker 3: lawyers who grilled him and got him to admit that

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Speaker 3: he lies, that he has an axe to grind against

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Speaker 3: the president, that he wants to see him behind bars,

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Speaker 3: and that he turned against him. This is all part

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Speaker 3: of the defensive strategy to paint Michael Cohen as a

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Speaker 3: witness who's just not credible. He's a convicted fellon, after all,

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Speaker 3: an admitted liar, spent thirteen months in prison for lying

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Speaker 3: to the Feds. And so that's the strategy, and it

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Speaker 3: seemed to have worked, at least according to court watchers

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Speaker 3: who are watching this grilling of Michael Cohen on the

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Speaker 3: stand this afternoon under the defensive questioning, getting him to

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Speaker 3: admit all sorts of things. But the bottom line Michael

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Speaker 3: Cohen says is that he was Trump's fixer, That there

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Speaker 3: was a payment that was orchestrated through Cohen to payoff

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Speaker 3: porn star Stormy Daniels because of an alleged affair, a

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Speaker 3: sexual encounter she had with Trump back in two thousand

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Speaker 3: and six. Trump wanted that story buried in advance of

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Speaker 3: the twenty sixteen election. He thought it would hurt him politically,

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Speaker 3: prosecutors say, and that Trump falsified business records to cover

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Speaker 3: that payment up. And that's the crust of the case.

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Speaker 3: And that's why this trial is ongoing this week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because Cohen was convicted lying to Congress, right, and

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Speaker 2: also lying by special counsel the federal government. So I

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Speaker 2: mean he's a he's a double liar on the record, Yeah, and.

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Speaker 3: He admits to it. But Michael Cohen maintained that Trump

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Speaker 3: was the one who was orchestrating all this, that was

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Speaker 3: paying to kill stories, paid off the National Inquirer, paid

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Speaker 3: off Stormy Daniels, paid off Karen McDougall, a former Playboy

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Speaker 3: playmate that Trump is also accused of having an alleged

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Speaker 3: admitted to being a liar, he maintains, at least this

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Speaker 3: time and in this trial, that he's telling the truth.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, the payoffs did happen. Although the payoffs

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Speaker 2: themselves are not illegal, it's that that that the false

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Speaker 2: falsifying what what they wrote down in the Ledger and

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Speaker 2: they wrote down was was legal expenses, right.

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Speaker 3: Right, And that's what Trump maintains that these were legitimate

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Speaker 3: legal expenses. That Michael Cohen was his lawyer, you know,

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Speaker 3: a lawyer who you know was paid a fee.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because Colin Cohen fronted the money to Stormy Daniels

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Speaker 2: and then Trump paid Cohen back and wrote it down

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Speaker 2: as legal expenses. I mean, you can argue all day

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Speaker 3: Right, And Cohen maintains that that's where his relationship with

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Speaker 3: and so financially they fell out. And that all created

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Speaker 3: this animosity between Cohen and Trump that eventually caused Cohen

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Speaker 3: All of that DEFENSI lawers have said has made Cohen

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Speaker 2: All right, So the original misdemeanor is falsifying the ledger

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Speaker 2: records by putting in legal expenses. But the real felonies

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Speaker 2: that would potentially get Trump in prison is that he

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Speaker 2: this story buried in advance of the twenty sixteen election. Now, right,

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Speaker 2: was there much evidence in Cohen's story that was the

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Speaker 2: an effect on the voting, Not.

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Speaker 3: At all, according to court watchers. Many legal experts, including

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Speaker 3: doesn't appear to be a smoking gun in terms of

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Speaker 3: so yeah, not a lot of evidence. It seems like

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Speaker 2: Because what I'm wondering, and I'm not asking you for

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Speaker 2: an answer on this, but I would think all candidates

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Speaker 2: covered up in some way or another. Nobody runs a

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Speaker 2: in their life, all their worst days, all their mistakes

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Speaker 2: they made, every time that they were abusive to somebody.

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Speaker 1: Nobody would ever do that.

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Speaker 2: So just simply withholding a bad story as election interference,

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Speaker 1: I don't get that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And that is why Trump's defense team is hammering

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Speaker 3: so forcefully against Michael Cohen, really trying to poke holes

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Speaker 3: the prosecution really loses its case on Michael Cohen. We'll

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Speaker 3: have to see if that works or not. And I

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Speaker 3: should tell you court is dark on Wednesday and they're

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Speaker 3: off again on Friday, so we really only have another

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Speaker 2: All right, Derek, thanks for coming on. Sure, Derek Dennis,

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Speaker 2: ABC News at the Trump Trial. I mean, I know

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Speaker 2: it's a political thing, right, but I'm trying to understand

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Speaker 2: this argument and if this would have any sway on jurors,

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Speaker 2: I mean, you certainly in New York City can have

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Speaker 2: what the case is, right, you get no j jury. Right,

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Speaker 2: you can get a group of people and they've got

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Speaker 1: And Trump is guilty.

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Speaker 2: But I'm just examining the details here, not wanting a

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Speaker 2: bad story about your life to go public. Well, of course,

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Speaker 2: it's like when you go for a job interview, to

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Speaker 2: At the last job, you tell about every argument you

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Speaker 1: Well, of course you don't.

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Speaker 2: So is that somehow unethical that you don't show off

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Speaker 2: your your bad side? Is basically in an election campaign,

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Speaker 2: it's like a job interview. You know, you're trying to

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Speaker 2: put your case why you should be president, And of

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Speaker 2: course nobody's gonna Probably virtually every candidate for office had

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Speaker 2: I'm just just astonished that this case was allowed into court.

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Speaker 1: This should have been thrown out by the judge minute one.

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Speaker 2: It really should. There's no crime here. There's no no

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Speaker 2: crime in hush money. Okay, so you brought off somebody's silence.

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Speaker 2: That's legal. We can all do that every day. And

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Speaker 2: then election interference because you don't want a bad story

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Speaker 2: the Clinton years. Reporters would get whiffs of, you know,

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Speaker 2: Harvey Weinstein did that. Harvey Weinstein paid off newspapers with

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Speaker 2: It's not illegal to do that. It's tawdry, but it's

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Speaker 2: We're gonna play you a clip by Eric Adams, the

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Speaker 2: mayor of New York. Adams has gotten overwhelmed by a

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Speaker 2: couple one hundred thousand illegal aliens, migrants running around everywhere,

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Speaker 2: and they don't all have a place to stay.

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Speaker 1: There aren't jobs for them.

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Speaker 2: Some of them have been I have been attacking people,

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Speaker 2: They've been getting into fights amongst themselves. Some of them

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Speaker 5: But if we had a plan that say, you have

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Speaker 5: And that's the same with lifeguards. So we have all

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Speaker 2: So they're qualified because they're excellent swimmers. Now, why would

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Speaker 2: Eric Adams think that the migrants are excellent swimmers? You

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Speaker 2: know why because of the ones that had to swim

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Speaker 2: across the Rio Grande River on the US Mexico border.

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Speaker 1: He saw all those people swimming across and decided, well,

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Speaker 2: To swim, they could be lifeguards. Apparently there's a there's

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Speaker 2: a severe shortage. The Deputy Mayor for Operations, someone named

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Speaker 2: Mira Joshi said that, you know, they'd have to pass

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Speaker 2: rigorous testing for positions ahead of the summer season this year,

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Speaker 2: and it's twenty two dollars an hour plus one thousand

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Speaker 2: No, I don't know. I think somehow they disconnected me

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Speaker 4: Go look, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from

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Speaker 2: The few businesses consist of liquor stores, marijuana dispensaries, fast

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Speaker 2: So what's going on here? In fact, they have spent

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Speaker 2: This is the massive corruption in Karen Bass's Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: And the problem's worse. What's going on? How is the

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Speaker 2: Newsom is his budget is busted. Right, it's tens of

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Speaker 1: Of them cover this stuff anymore.

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Speaker 2: All right, So we're gonna go with Angela Heart of

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Speaker 2: KFF Health News, and she questions Newsome about where all

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Speaker 1: Number three, do.

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Speaker 7: You acknowledge, Governor, is your administration doing enough to determine

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the.

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Speaker 8: Question in the frame. It's the right question to what

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Speaker 1: And the phrase you know from the audit.

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Speaker 8: One of the VECs issues that was highlighting the audit

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Speaker 8: Localism's determinative, and each city and county has different strategies

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Speaker 8: First plans because I didn't think there was enough transparency

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Speaker 1: Also Third, and.

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Speaker 8: This is really important until you know this well, but

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Speaker 8: for others perhaps don't. We also promoted and I couldn't

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Speaker 8: Housing Accountability Unit, which by the way is unlocked twenty

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Speaker 8: three thousand housing units in the state. I'm really proud

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry, Grevnor I didn't hear responses to either of

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Speaker 7: I'm hearing this like souring towards putting more money into

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Speaker 8: Well, and forgive me, I'll if I appear to repeat

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Speaker 1: Well, Agela Hart.

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Speaker 2: I don't know who she is or what KFF Health

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Speaker 1: Actually? Sitting back and it's kind of marveling.

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Speaker 2: He just keeps going and going with more words, more

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Speaker 2: never heard anybody able to do that, and it adds

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Speaker 1: When she.

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Speaker 2: Restates the question again, his only response is, well.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm just gonna repeair what it just said.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: He's Look, this is really insane. It's twenty four billion

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Speaker 8: The audit did not surprise me.

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Speaker 2: So he knows over the six year period that there

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Speaker 2: we spend twenty four billion dollars. No, I don't know

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Speaker 2: That was the gist of the audit. No one knows

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Speaker 2: And he said it didn't surprise him. So what's he

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Speaker 2: been doing the last six years? What they really don't care?

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Speaker 2: I mean, they really don't care. After three o'clock we'll

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Speaker 2: hear the mini version of what's going on in LA

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Speaker 2: where they blown eight hundred million dollars buying up buildings.

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Speaker 2: They have twelve hundred city owned homeless housing units in

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Speaker 2: and there's a hepatitis outbreak among the homeless.

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Speaker 1: Two we'll get to. It's it's a great day.

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

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Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock. We're going to talk to

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Speaker 2: Chrys Lagrath. He's a writer we've had on a number

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Speaker 2: of times. He's got a piece. It's quite an investigation

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Speaker 2: in the West Side Current. You can go to Westside

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Speaker 2: Current dot com. And it's about the city of LA

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Speaker 2: spending eight hundred million dollars buying up buildings that they

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Speaker 2: were supposed to be homeless in. Looks like they're wildly

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Speaker 2: overpaying for a lot of rundown buildings and now they

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Speaker 2: have twelve hundred homeless housing units and two years later

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Speaker 2: they're vacant after the eight hundred million dollar buying spree.

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Speaker 2: And if you go through this article, it's absolutely infuriating

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Speaker 2: and shocking, and I mean, we've created this monster of

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Speaker 2: a homeless bureaucracy that is gobbling up billions of dollars,

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Speaker 2: and there's no accounting for the money, and nobody's hardly

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Speaker 2: anybody's been helped. You heard clueless Newsom stumbling through his

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Speaker 2: answer in that press conference last segment. Order asked, hey,

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Speaker 2: twenty four billion dollars, blown, says the audit, and Newsom

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Speaker 2: started spewing verbal diarrhea for two minutes, and she said

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Speaker 2: in response, I didn't hear an answer there.

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Speaker 1: Nobody has any answers.

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Speaker 2: If you'd seen some of the testimony before the legislature,

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Speaker 2: some of Newsom's lieutenants were asked by the legislature what

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Speaker 2: happened to all the money?

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Speaker 1: They didn't have an inn.

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Speaker 2: Literally, nobody knows what happened to the twenty four billion.

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Speaker 2: And here in Los Angeles, nobody knows how you spend

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Speaker 2: eight hundred million dollars and you have twelve hundred housing

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Speaker 2: units vacant after two years.

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Speaker 1: What a racket? What a scam? This is?

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Speaker 2: This is criminal activity, This is organized crime. The mob

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Speaker 2: in New York City would be ashamed of this operation. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: we're going to talk with crys La grog meantime back

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Speaker 2: on the street. The La County Department of Public Health,

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Speaker 2: you know the ones who shut down your lives for

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Speaker 2: several years. Well, here's a gift from the homeless in

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Speaker 2: the streets, an outbreak of hepatitis A. They detected the

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Speaker 2: first case in mid March, and now it's spread to

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Speaker 2: at least five people, and I'm sure it's a lot

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Speaker 2: more than that. You know how you catch hepatitis A.

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Speaker 2: Hope you're not having lunch. It's a highly contagious liver

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Speaker 2: infection that spreads even before you're sick, and it spreads

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Speaker 2: through the stool and blood of infected people. And homeless

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Speaker 2: people get it a lot because according to oh oh,

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Speaker 2: this is CBS, this is channel channel two and nine.

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Speaker 2: Doctor say, listen to this PC garbage. Why are all

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Speaker 2: the newswriters use this idiot this idiotic language, doctor say,

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Speaker 2: the unhoused. The unhoused, they're vagrants, they're mentally ill, and

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Speaker 2: they're drug addicts. The unhoused, Oh, if we put a

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Speaker 2: house over their head, magically things would be better. They're

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Speaker 2: at a high risk of contracting hepatitis A because they

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Speaker 2: typically have limited access to hand washing stations.

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Speaker 1: And toilets. So what are they saying.

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Speaker 2: They have poop all over their hands, and then they

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Speaker 2: stick their hands in their mouth and they catch the

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Speaker 2: hepatitis from their own poop. And then they shake the

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Speaker 2: hand of another homeless guy who puts his hand in

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Speaker 2: his mouth, and now he's got the hepatitis. And they're

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Speaker 2: touching all the door knobs and door handles in the neighborhood.

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Speaker 6: That's why you need the paper towel.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now that's why.

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Speaker 2: That's why you walk around those white b's and paper towels. So,

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Speaker 2: so this is because they don't have access to hand

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Speaker 2: washing stations. Oh, you mean a bathroom, sink and a toilet,

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Speaker 2: which you have when you work for a living, and

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Speaker 2: then you can either rent an apartment or buy a home.

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Speaker 2: But why why don't the newswriters write because these people

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Speaker 2: have chosen to shoot up drugs or not take their

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Speaker 2: mental illness medication. Uh, they don't have a job, so

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Speaker 2: they don't have a washing station, a hand washing hand

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Speaker 2: washing station. Nobody has a hand washing station. We call

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Speaker 2: them sinks in our house. Kids go to the hand

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Speaker 2: washing station and washing station. Does anybody speak English? And

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Speaker 2: he do some gibbering for three minutes. Nobody speaks English anymore.

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Speaker 2: Everything is euphemisms. All right, we come back. I can't

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Speaker 2: wait to talk to Chrys Lagrath. Wait to hear this story.

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Speaker 2: Bet you want to read this story because it's it's

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Speaker 2: quite long. We'll only end up covering a you know,

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Speaker 2: a fraction of it. But the city has blown hundred

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Speaker 2: dreds of millions of dollars buying a lot of old

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Speaker 2: buildings apartments for the homeless, except they're sitting vacant after

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Speaker 2: two years of eight hundred million spent.

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