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Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: We're on from Monday till four o'clock. After four o'clock today,

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Speaker 2: big announcement that Tim and I will share with you together.

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Speaker 1: Both of us will be on it. It's an announcement

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Speaker 1: so big. Two of us need.

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Speaker 2: Need to be here to communicate it properly. So you

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Speaker 2: be around for that. Let me see Gavin Newsome. You

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Speaker 2: gotta watch the stuff he does quietly. He's pushing a

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Speaker 2: bill so that California High Speed Rail.

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Speaker 1: A lot of the a lot of the.

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Speaker 2: Paperwork, a lot of the information would get would get

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Speaker 2: covered up. I don't know house to explain it. We

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Speaker 2: suddenly wouldn't know about all the wild spending and all

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Speaker 2: the problems, well you know, all all the botched construction,

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Speaker 2: the wasted money. So they want to keep wasting the

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Speaker 2: money and stealing the money, but they'd like to do

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Speaker 2: it in private. The latest was half a billion dollars

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Speaker 2: that's supposed to be paid to a construction company because

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Speaker 2: of some kind of some kind of delay. I we'll

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Speaker 2: find out. We're going to talk. We're going to talk

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Speaker 2: here to Alexandra Messito. She's a Republican assemblyman and she she,

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Speaker 2: like any normal person, thinks this whole rail project should stop.

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Speaker 2: That should have stopped about ten years ago. Let's get

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Speaker 2: Alexandra on see what what this new bill is. Alexandra,

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Speaker 2: how are you, John?

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Speaker 3: I'm great, it's good to be back on your show.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: It is, what's what's this bill? I know there's two

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Speaker 2: versions of the bill. One of them came from the legislature,

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Speaker 2: one of them from Newsom's office, but they both accomplish

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Speaker 2: the same thing, and that's to cover up the spending.

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Speaker 1: So we don't know what's going on anymore.

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Speaker 3: So essentially, the Inspector General is asking for authority from

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Speaker 3: the legislature to allow them to summarize information and to

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Speaker 3: withhold any information that reveals weaknesses in the project or

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Speaker 3: does not serve the interest of the state. Now, while

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Speaker 3: the interest of the state is not defined in the bill,

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Speaker 3: I will define it for you. The interest of the

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Speaker 3: state is building the California High Speed Rail in their eyes.

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Speaker 3: So anytime somebody like me, like you, somebody involved in

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Speaker 3: the process, a whistleblower brings information to the forefront that

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Speaker 3: that within their reports. And I'm one of those crazy

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Speaker 3: people that actually reads the Inspector General's reports, and that

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Speaker 3: that there is no viable half forward for this project.

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Speaker 3: We saw the failings in not only the spending, but

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Speaker 3: the timelines and many of those things that allowed us

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Speaker 3: actually to write the letter to the Trump administration saying

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Speaker 3: there is something really wrong with this project. I was

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Speaker 3: in middle school when it was on the ballot. I'm

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Speaker 3: now in the state legislature and we have not a

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Speaker 3: single foot of track laid. I represent the Central Valley,

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Speaker 3: so we are the unlucky winner. I guess of the

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Speaker 3: California Stone hinge, which is the concrete structures of the

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Speaker 3: high speed rail that I've had to drive by a

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Speaker 3: and then be slapped in the face by many of

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Speaker 3: the high speed rail authorities videos and press conferences that

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Speaker 3: are once again taxpayer funded, saying isn't this great? The

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Speaker 3: have failing infrastructure that communities don't have clean drinking water.

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Speaker 3: Our agricultural land is not getting the water it needs.

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Speaker 3: Our roads are some of the worst roads in the nation.

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Speaker 3: And then they have the audacity to paint this as

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Speaker 3: some type of gift to us. Please spare me.

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Speaker 2: You cracked me up that you were in school when

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Speaker 2: this thing originally passed, And I was just thinking, all

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Speaker 2: three of my kids were in elementary school and they've

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Speaker 1: The thing is still not built.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I actually had somebody reach out to me

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Speaker 3: high speed rail from then to now. I think it's

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Speaker 4: Well, I this this is so obviously ridiculous. Is they

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Speaker 4: they considered whatever information that leaked out that alerted the

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Speaker 4: effect on the state. They lost their federal funding. So

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Speaker 4: what the federal government knew about this is exactly what

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Speaker 4: they want to.

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Speaker 1: Cover up.

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Speaker 3: Well, and that's what's hilarious to me that they're being

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Speaker 3: very quiet about this. We all know Newsom and Bonta

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Speaker 3: thoroughly enjoy using taxpayer money once again to sue the

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Speaker 3: Trump administration, which they did over the funding, and very quietly,

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Speaker 3: the day before Christmas Eve they withdrew that lawsuit. Why

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Speaker 3: why do they withdraw the lawsuit if they were so

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Speaker 3: confident that they should get that four billion dollars because

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Speaker 3: out loud, but they said the quiet part out loud

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Speaker 3: by doing that. This project is a failure. And you

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Speaker 3: keep throwing good money after a bad project. And now

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Speaker 3: we expect California taxpayers to pick up the bill to

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Speaker 3: the tune of a billion dollars a year to continue

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Speaker 3: funding this absolute disaster of a project that I think

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Speaker 3: we're all just hoping and praying some wonderful private sector

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Speaker 3: this is a history lesson for all legislatures going forward

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Speaker 3: of buyer beware and the state of California certainly should

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Speaker 2: What's this half billion dollar payment we've got to make

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Speaker 2: to a contractor, there's a lawsuit, there's work delays. This

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Speaker 2: That's a half billion dollars is blown on delays.

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Speaker 1: Explain it.

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Speaker 3: So that is another one of the wonderful things that

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Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom was actually in the Central Valley down in

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Speaker 3: Kern County standing in front of freight train and freight

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Speaker 3: like most of the things he says. And the very

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Speaker 3: the largest settlement in the high speed rail history and

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Speaker 3: was five hundred and thirty seven million dollars, so over

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Speaker 3: of things mostly centered around delay related issues change orders

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is the I don't understand. They're literally

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Speaker 3: admitting they didn't plan to plan for things to not

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Speaker 3: now the deal it's insanity. And then they tried to

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Speaker 3: guess going on in Sacramento, and nobody knew about it

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Speaker 3: until I waved the red flag on it. And then

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Speaker 3: when pushed about it and I said, well, I'd like

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Speaker 3: to see the contents of the settlement. I was just

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Speaker 3: basically told but until there's a wet signature on the

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Speaker 3: public records request.

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Speaker 1: I think it is.

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Speaker 3: They won't even tell me what the contents of it.

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Speaker 2: Is yet, But it's because the state was so far

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Speaker 2: behind in their work. It made the construction company behind,

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Speaker 2: so we have to pay them a half.

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Speaker 1: A billion.

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Speaker 3: Correct, Yes, insanity.

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Speaker 2: And this stuff is coming out all the time people.

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Speaker 2: I mean with the Trump administration, you know, pulling the

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Speaker 2: federal money. I've got to believe anybody who cares about

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Speaker 2: this understands now this is massive fraud. There's people stealing

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Speaker 2: money right from under us, and we can't get it stopped.

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Speaker 2: Nobody will stop it. This is the most frustrating thing

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Speaker 3: Well, what's frustrating for me is when you talk to

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Speaker 3: some people, especially the comments on social media. People still

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Speaker 3: believe that the high speed rail will go from Los

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Speaker 3: Angeles to San Francisco. Mark my words, The high speed

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Speaker 3: Mercenda Bakersfield, and it's from a field to an orchard occurrently.

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Speaker 3: And then once to take it a step further, I

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Speaker 3: of me and I said, all right, so who's going

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Speaker 3: to ride this thing? Have you done any surveys of

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Speaker 1: Well, probably should do that. Yes, we're in year eighteen.

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Speaker 3: And then I asked, well, how much are you going

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Speaker 3: to charge for a ticket? Oh, we don't know that yet,

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Speaker 3: so you don't know how you're going to even maintain

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Speaker 3: the dang thing once. I guess my great grandchildren's lifetime

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Speaker 3: It's simply not viable. They're refusing to admit it. I

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Speaker 2: When News did his media event, he said it was

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Speaker 5: Where it ends.

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Speaker 3: In His whole thing was that they're finally going to

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Speaker 3: start laying track. But there's an interesting history there as well.

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Speaker 2: He standing in Wasco. So this train's going to end,

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Speaker 2: and then when you get Toasco, then what do you do?

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Speaker 2: Wesco's this tiny town.

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Speaker 1: I think it's like we really.

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Speaker 3: Hope ubers are there. I guess I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It's like thirty miles east of Bakersfield or west of Bakersfield.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it. Well, well, then it's so everybody takes a

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Speaker 1: train of Westco or yes, did you say you have

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Speaker 1: another story? Did I hear you say.

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Speaker 3: That I have another story.

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Speaker 1: Can you hang on? All right?

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Speaker 2: Hang on and we'll have more coming up. We've just

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Speaker 2: got to take a break for news and other things.

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Speaker 2: We're talking to Alexandra Mersito, assembly Member, a Republican. Why

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Speaker 2: don't all the assembly people sound like her? Why don't

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Speaker 2: they all think and talk like her?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Wow?

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Speaker 1: This is this is such theft.

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

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 2: And we continue now with assembly Woman Republican Alexandra Mesito,

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Speaker 2: and she's been explaining this new Gavin Newsom bill that

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Speaker 2: he's trying to jam through the legislature, which would allow

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Speaker 2: the Inspector General for High Speed Rail to not release

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Speaker 2: any financial information, any records, anything that would make the

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Speaker 2: state look bad. And it would be something like this,

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Speaker 2: five hundred million dollars that we the state taxpayers, have

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Speaker 2: to pay to a contractor because the state was so

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Speaker 2: I guess had a penalty in his deal with the state,

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Speaker 2: and that if the state is way late and he's

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Speaker 2: Newsom held a media event in Westco and we're not

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Speaker 3: It happening. But let's go back to twenty nineteen. July

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Speaker 3: What a slap in the faith to hard working Californians

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Speaker 2: Just this is crazy and excited. Yeah, I'm I guess

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Speaker 1: And doesn't I don't see the public getting riled up

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Speaker 3: Well, I think all of us are trying to just

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Speaker 3: We need more money, so taxpayers are ATMs We're going

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Speaker 3: to take more of it. But that's the you know,

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Speaker 3: you just said what every person needs to remember until

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Speaker 3: other failures of the state of California. For the record,

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Speaker 3: why there's one party rule in Sacramento. That is why

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Speaker 3: and know that we have elections coming that you can

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Speaker 4: Do you ever talk to anybody in the legislature on

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Speaker 3: Oh, many of Democrats have gone on the record and

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Speaker 3: And if you notice, you know, the way they say

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Speaker 3: truly understand the gravity of this. I mean, we're talking

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Speaker 3: And now the whole project that they still try to

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Speaker 2: Why isn't there a court case to stop this? I mean,

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Speaker 2: there's so much fraud going on, and so much of

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Speaker 2: this does not align with the original violations of the

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Speaker 2: I can't believe there isn't a judge stopping this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, our liberal courts, I'm sure, are going to jump

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Speaker 3: At least the FED saved their money and said, you

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Speaker 4: Great talking with you, Alexandra. I wish every FAS assembly

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Speaker 4: assembly woman, and she laid it out straight. She's telling

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Speaker 2: You just got to vote differently in this All will

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Speaker 2: go away very quickly when we come back. Michael Munks

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Speaker 2: going after Karen Bass. She held a press conference today.

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Speaker 2: Is she talking about the homelessness the fire?

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Speaker 1: No? No, No more stuff about ice? That's next.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM.

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Speaker 2: Six forty we're just less than an hour and a

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Speaker 2: be a more colorful title for this, the big KFI announcement,

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Speaker 2: Big KFI announcement. All right, Kim Conway and I will

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Speaker 1: And we'll have a big KFI announcement. And now.

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Speaker 4: It's much smaller announcement, Michaeler announcement. Michael Monks is in

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Speaker 4: the studio.

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Speaker 1: Now. The several things going on.

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass had a press conference today and I do

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Speaker 2: not believe she covered anything about any failed homeless policies

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Speaker 2: or failed fire response. It was she was yelling about

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Speaker 2: ice again.

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 4: When she had a press conference to announce her seventeenth

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Speaker 4: to stage on city property. She says, no, she doesn't

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Speaker 1: Answer any other questions about anything else. You know.

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Speaker 4: I can't speak for her in that regard, but today

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Speaker 4: something similar to what the county is doing. They did

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Speaker 4: But does that really change anything? Though, well, it doesn't.

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Speaker 4: Doesn't the federal government have enough federal land. I know

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Speaker 4: they could have a staging area really easy. Have you

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Speaker 4: It's another symbolic moved. We see this at all levels

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Speaker 1: Doing something in the city.

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Speaker 2: So this is the campaign so far, is she's symbolic

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Speaker 4: We've talked before that this is what I think she

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Speaker 4: I know that's an understatement, especially for people who are

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Speaker 2: The general condition of the city, Yeah, all right, there's

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Speaker 4: Well, they don't have any money, and when they cut

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Speaker 4: and now it's down to eighty three hundred I read

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Speaker 4: there's a.

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Speaker 2: Way, you know, the fire department wasn't properly, so the

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Speaker 1: I read the other day.

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Speaker 2: I don know if you saw in the City Journal

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Speaker 2: and there's a zero in the in the budget for

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Speaker 4: I interviewed the guys that wrote the op ed that

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Speaker 4: They discovered this and it is absolutely true because the

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Speaker 4: haven't done anything. We're doing some patchwork because they don't

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Speaker 4: fills the potholes? Right, That's the thing you expect the

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Speaker 4: and it just doesn't happen. It's a city hall that

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Speaker 4: she screams about ice every single press conference she has

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Speaker 1: It's like that says nothing to do with this nothing.

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Speaker 4: We will have to see how these candidates say, we're

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Speaker 4: going to fix the potholes, We're going to fix the

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Speaker 4: street lights. I told you council Woman Raman, who's running

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Speaker 4: against Mayor bas And this election, came out with a

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Speaker 4: proposal to fix the street lights, didn't I. It's to

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Speaker 4: raise the taxes on the property as I saw that.

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Speaker 4: Not to stop the criminals, no to tax people more.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of taxes, while we got a couple of minutes,

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Speaker 2: LA County supervisors want to raise the county sales tax.

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Speaker 2: It would be ten and a quarter percent, where into

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Speaker 2: double digits to have the money used for healthcare.

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Speaker 4: And this is after the twenty twenty four Measure A

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Speaker 4: that voters approved to get more money to homelessness, and

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Speaker 4: that was a half cent, so that put it the

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Speaker 4: sales tax rate at nine point seven five percent. This

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Speaker 4: one would put it at ten and a quarter percent.

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Speaker 4: Ten in a corner, and this is for healthcare. Would

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Speaker 4: raise it. It's a temporary tax. Jop pound down. It's

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Speaker 4: a temporary tax. You know, taxes come and go. It's

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Speaker 4: a half sent sales tax. That would raise the county's

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Speaker 4: sales tax rate to ten and a quarter percent. It

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Speaker 4: would raise a billion dollars to support local healthcare initiatives.

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Speaker 4: This is also related to the Trump administration and the

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Speaker 4: Big Beautiful bills. Supervisors say it cut too much from

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Speaker 4: healthcare support at the local level, and we want to

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Speaker 4: supplement debit like.

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Speaker 1: The hospices that doctor Oz found in Van nine.

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Speaker 4: Possibly, we'll have to see what this camp I mean,

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Speaker 4: I mean to me that seems to be the reason

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Speaker 4: for the cuts. Is they discovered all this fraud. It's like, well,

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Speaker 4: you're not getting this money anymore.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you're not going to have forty two fake hospices

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Speaker 2: on a two square miles of Van Eyes.

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Speaker 1: You know that game is over.

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Speaker 4: Supervisor Janis Hans says she hears from constituents all the

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Speaker 4: time and say how can we stand up? And she says,

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Speaker 4: this is giving those those voters an opportunity to stand

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Speaker 4: up against the Trump administration by paying a higher sales

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Speaker 4: All these voters you live among, some of those voters,

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Speaker 4: some of them, Yeah, do they not connect who they

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Speaker 4: vote for? With all this all this collapse of the city.

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Speaker 4: Most of my neighbors live in tents, so I don't

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Speaker 4: know if they vote.

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Speaker 1: I thought you were getting out of the tent.

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Speaker 5: You're still.

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Speaker 4: I'm starting to love downtown. It's charming, it's disgusting. Plus

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Speaker 4: plus the homeless tax increase you talked about. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 4: they announced the other day they're cutting two hundred million

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Speaker 4: dollars in homeless money. Well, you raised a tax by

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Speaker 4: half cent and then you're cutting the funding.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, because that were.

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Speaker 4: They owe four billion dollars for raping children.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah. Side business, they have.

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Speaker 4: A little hustle they had going on, which is unfortunate,

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Speaker 4: and tons of fraud in that apparently, no really just

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Speaker 4: writing checks, money flying out of the county building. Then

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Speaker 4: you wonder, yeah, why it looks the way it does. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: you got it. You gotta get at least you get

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Speaker 4: a better tent. My loft is a nice loft. My

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Speaker 4: neighbors are not great.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Michael Monks from KFI News.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am six.

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Speaker 1: What was I going to talk about?

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Speaker 3: Here?

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Speaker 2: A here's a headline in the La Times.

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Speaker 1: Follow along with me.

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Speaker 2: The headline says, very clearly and correctly, federal judge strikes

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Speaker 2: down the California mask ban on immigration agents. You got that.

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Speaker 2: Federal judge says, no mask ban on immigration agents. Judge

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Speaker 2: Christina Snyder said it doesn't apply to all law enforcement

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Speaker 2: officers because it excludes state law enforcement and did HP,

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Speaker 2: for example, could wear masks but the Feds couldn't under

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Speaker 2: the law. Oh, she said it was unlawful discrimination against

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Speaker 2: the federal officers. Then she said, well, the ban, though,

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Speaker 2: does not impede officers from performing their duties. So these

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Speaker 2: California officials thought, maybe there's a crack there, Maybe there's

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Speaker 2: a window of opportunity. If all we have to do

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Speaker 2: is ban the masks for the CHP, then maybe maybe

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Speaker 2: we can ban the masks for the Feds. So Scott Wiener,

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Speaker 2: who is.

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Speaker 4: Just the product of a bowel movement, I think that's

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Speaker 4: the best I can say. I mean, he's just an

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Speaker 4: insufferable little weasel. He now has a new law he's

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Speaker 4: written up to ban all law enforcement, including the CHP

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Speaker 4: and everybody else and ICE. But at least he acknowledged that, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: the federal judge did strike down the mask ban. By

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Speaker 4: the way, it'll be thrown out eventually completely regarding to Ice,

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Speaker 4: because there's such a thing called the supremacy clause, and

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Speaker 4: that means the federal government laws supersede state and local laws.

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Speaker 4: So there's no doubta batter. It'll get thrown out, all right.

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Speaker 2: So Gavin Newsom goes on X and says, a federal

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Speaker 2: court just upheld California's law requiring federal agents to identify themselves.

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Speaker 1: Well, no it didn't. A federal court struck down the

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Speaker 1: mask ban.

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Speaker 2: And he goes on X and says, the court just

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Speaker 2: upheld California's law. So Bill a Sale, the first assistant

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Speaker 2: US attorney says, that's a funny way of saying you lost.

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Speaker 1: A federal judge blocked your.

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Speaker 4: Anti masking law because it violated the supremacy clause. He

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Speaker 4: just Knewsom went online and just openly lied. He said

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Speaker 4: the opposite of the truth. He said, the opposite of

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Speaker 4: what the judge said.

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Speaker 2: He said the I mean, even the guy who wrote

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Speaker 2: the stupid bill, Scott Wiener, the reason he's writing a

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Speaker 2: new bill is because he realized, Okay, this first round

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Speaker 2: we lost. We got, at the very least we got

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Speaker 2: to rewrite it. But this bill has been declared unconstitutional,

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Speaker 2: unlawful discrimination. And Newsom goes online and says, well, we won.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'd never seen and he knows he's lying.

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Speaker 1: It's a thing. He knows he's lying, but he knows.

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Speaker 4: Most people aren't gonna bother to read the article or

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Speaker 4: they're not gonna understand the article.

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Speaker 1: So it looks like, oh, you stood up the trump.

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Speaker 4: Oo.

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Speaker 1: Look at that, you stood up the trump.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they're a lot of votes, and there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of money in playing to the stupid. Obviously, you

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Speaker 2: could build a political careers, entertainment careers, news careers on

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Speaker 2: Jess laying to the stupid people, the ignorant people, people

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Speaker 2: who are scrolling TikTok all day and they either don't

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Speaker 2: know or don't understand because they well, I mean, Newsom

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Speaker 2: himself is a ninety three IQ guy. Ultimately, all this

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Speaker 2: stuff gets thrown out. And by the way, Newsom has

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Speaker 2: never enforced this law. In fact, if he thinks he won,

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Speaker 2: then he should start enforcing it, but he's not going to.

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Speaker 2: And even if this law was upheld, there is no

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Speaker 2: state or local officer that is ever going to try

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Speaker 2: to arrest a federal officer. That will never happen on

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Speaker 2: this planet, in this state. When we come back, Carlton

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Speaker 2: Miles coming on the Assemblymen down in San Diego. The

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Speaker 2: Democrats just voted to kill a bill that would protect

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Speaker 2: middle class taxpayers from having to pay a savings tax.

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Speaker 1: A savings tax.

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Speaker 4: No, honest to god, I hadn't even heard of this

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Speaker 4: until this story came out today. We'll explain with carl

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Speaker 4: that's next. Debra Marks live in the CAFI twenty for

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