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Speaker 2: up what you miss. Well, hour one is up already,

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Speaker 2: our one is up, hour two is coming. Let's now

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Speaker 2: go to Don Mahollick. He had him on many times

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Speaker 2: ABC News Law Enforcement contributor, and he's retired senior Secret

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Speaker 2: Service agent, and we're going to talk about how this

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Speaker 2: Nancy Guthrie case and the deadline for paying the ransom

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Speaker 2: allegedly is in less than an hour at four o'clock

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Speaker 2: Pacific time. This whole case doesn't follow any normal pattern

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Speaker 2: of a kidnapping that I can remember, and I see

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Speaker 2: other crime experts and it FBI agents say the same thing.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk to Don. How are you good, John? I'm good.

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Speaker 2: The whole world seems to be baffled by the arc

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Speaker 2: of this story because there's never any new details to

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Speaker 2: the story. I don't know what you've heard and what

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Speaker 2: you've know because this stuff changes. But we still don't

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Speaker 2: know who's asking for the money, if they're real, where

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Speaker 2: they are, if Nancy Guthrie is in their possession, if

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Speaker 2: she's alive or dead. I don't know anything. I mean,

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Speaker 2: are they really going to pay six million dollars in

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Speaker 1: And that's the question right now, because you're right, this

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Speaker 1: thing hasn't followed any typical kidnapping patterns. Most kidnappers, number one,

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Speaker 1: want to have their direct line of communications if they

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Speaker 1: want to get paid. If it's sort of kidnapping for money,

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Speaker 1: haven't established that is questionable. In addition to that, the

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Speaker 1: three notes or the two notes that have come out

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Speaker 1: which is of course another concerning thing. Also, why would

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Speaker 1: And also, you know, most kidnappers want to negotiating the

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Speaker 1: In this case, not only do they have all of

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Speaker 1: the United States making proclamations about the case. So it

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Speaker 1: is absolutely the opposite of how a normal or a

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Speaker 1: just seems like it's something nobody's ever seen before.

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Speaker 2: What kind of evidence should they be looking at right

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Speaker 2: now that they probably are looking at And where are

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Speaker 1: While they're you know, because of the notes, they're trying

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Speaker 3: Thing they have to do, is they're probably.

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Speaker 1: Taking everybody in her orbit, friends, families, people she went

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Speaker 2: Ah. Does it seem like maybe that the police have

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Speaker 1: No, I don't think. I think they're doing a lot

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Speaker 1: Went from being one where she was allegedly answering the

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Speaker 3: Hey, we haven't heard from you. We're ready to pay.

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Speaker 3: What are you going to reach out to us? Maybe,

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Speaker 2: But maybe the people sending the rents don't exist. Maybe

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Speaker 2: it was just pranksters, just a hoax.

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Speaker 1: Well, well, and that's true too, John, because they locked

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Speaker 1: in California for siting not one of these, but a

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Speaker 1: we haven't been told. If they haven't, haven't.

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Speaker 2: Well, if they If the motivation is not to make money,

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Speaker 2: if the motivation is not to get a platform for

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Speaker 2: And then why would they have killed her to begin with?

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Speaker 1: So you come down to personal motives. It might be

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Speaker 3: The people involved wanted.

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Speaker 1: To cover what happened, and they removed her in order

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Speaker 1: Course that sort of counter that is, whoever was there

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Speaker 1: most people see a ring doorbell, they figure they're getting recorded.

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Speaker 1: most people also know a ring doorbell records in a cloud,

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Speaker 2: Property, right, and there's no video from that ring camera,

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Speaker 2: we can't.

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Speaker 1: No she said they say, they say this, which I

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Speaker 1: find questionable too, that the subscription ran out so the camera.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't recording anymore.

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Speaker 1: running down, is you know who is responsible for the subscriptions?

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Speaker 1: Why did it run out? When did it run out?

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Speaker 1: it you know, the subscription end, you know, a month ago,

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Speaker 1: and you know Grandma just didn't get a chance to

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Speaker 1: you find strange too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, everything's strange about this one. It's a strange case, John,

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Speaker 2: No recognizable pattern. All right, Thank you very much, Donald,

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Speaker 2: talk again, Don Mahallic, ABC.

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Speaker 3: News, Thanks John, Thanks care of okay, and.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, do you know that they're trying

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Speaker 2: to pass a bill. Newsom is trying to get a

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Speaker 2: bill passed to make secret all the high speed rail

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Speaker 2: records that would make the government look bad. I'm not

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Speaker 2: making this up. And you're going to hear an interview

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Speaker 2: that was done by Ashley Zavala up in northern California

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Speaker 2: with a assembly Woman Alexandra Mercido, and she's gonna explain.

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Speaker 2: Give you an example, why now Newsom and the Democrats

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Speaker 2: want to cover up all the sins of high speed rail.

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Speaker 2: We'll explain.

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

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Speaker 2: High speed rail, seventeen billion dollars over eighteen years. No rail,

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Speaker 2: no trains, no nothing. You know this now, Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 2: and other Assembly members want to pass a bill that

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Speaker 2: would keep high speed rail records confidential. Yes, it's Assembly

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Speaker 2: Bill sixteen oh eight, written by Lorie Wilson, the Assembly

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Speaker 2: Transportation Committee chairwoman. And another similar bill has been proposed

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Speaker 2: by Gavin Newsom's office. So there's two bills. They're nearly identical.

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Speaker 2: And this would prohibit the release of records that officials

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Speaker 2: believe would reveal weaknesses that could harm the state if publicized.

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Speaker 2: There actually is an Inspector General of the High Speed

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Speaker 2: Rail Authority, which is supposed to audit, monitor and make

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Speaker 2: policy recommendations. Oh yeah, whoever that is is doing a

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Speaker 2: great job. That person's been around for four years. And

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Speaker 2: this bill would shield the office from public records requests

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Speaker 2: for sensitive data such as details of fraud. Here is

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Speaker 2: an interview CASERA Channel three reporter Ashley Zavalla talked with

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Speaker 2: a California assembly Woman, Alexandra Messdo, who has an example

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Speaker 5: This proposal that's coming from the Office of the Inspector

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Speaker 5: General that is independent but oversees the high speed Rail

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Speaker 5: Authority seeking to make some records secret if they reveal

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Speaker 5: weaknesses that could harm the state in essence, do you

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Speaker 5: have a sense of where that's coming from.

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Speaker 6: Well, I'm very curious if Newsom included in his press

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Speaker 6: confert nt yesterday at the high speed rail recently, as

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Speaker 6: of two weeks ago, paid their highest settlement of nearly

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Speaker 6: half a billion dollars to a construction company for delay

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Speaker 6: related contractual issues. Half a billion dollars. He didn't include that,

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Speaker 6: did he. Well, that's the kind of stuff that we

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Speaker 6: can hide with this new bill, because it's saying we

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Speaker 6: can summarize things that are revealing weaknesses if it doesn't

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Speaker 6: serve the interest of the state. Well, Ashley, what's the

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Speaker 6: interest of the state. It's to build the high speed rail.

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Speaker 6: So literally, anytime somebody like me who calls out those

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Speaker 2: to Elafonte vermin infestation that means rats. Well, they're saying

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Speaker 2: that because next door there is a homeless shelter paid

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Speaker 2: for by city taxpayers called Step Up on Second. Guess

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Speaker 2: that's the second Street. Dozens of homeless people in downtown

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Speaker 2: According to doctor human David Hamadi, he said, stench all

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Speaker 2: the time, flies everywhere. Put it homeless shelter. Next the

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Speaker 2: nicest restaurants, you're gonna get rats and roaches. Step Up

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Speaker 2: on Second a nonprofit, a supportive housing provider for people

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Speaker 2: facing homelessness. Oh God. On their website, Step Up on

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Speaker 2: Second says they received major funding from the City of

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Speaker 2: and they have some disgusting homeless shelter that's infested with

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Speaker 2: rats and roaches. The rats and roaches get loose and

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Speaker 2: the restaurant next door, and the restaurant has to close.

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Speaker 2: So you paid for this disgusting homeless shelter and the

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Speaker 2: rats and roaches, and now you can't eat at your

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Speaker 2: favorite restaurant because the city has to close it. This

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Speaker 2: is not a civilized society, This is not a civilized world.

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Speaker 2: This is what the progressives do. Is this actually a

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Speaker 2: political issue? Tax money for homeless people, rats and roaches?

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Speaker 2: Rest nice restaurant closes major breaches because of all the

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Speaker 2: rodents and bugs. This is this is, this is insanity.

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Speaker 2: One hundred twenty dollars steak, got it? I don't think

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Speaker 2: I've seen that can run upwards one hundred and twenty dollars. Wow,

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Speaker 2: it's good work. I mean, I mean, Santa Monica City Council.

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Speaker 2: You should be so proud of yourself. What lunatics? All right,

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Speaker 2: we got Conway coming up next and we'll see you tomorrow.

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