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Speaker 2: We'll talk about that with Michael Monks coming up. Trump

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Speaker 2: had one of his entertaining press conference yesterday and in

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Speaker 2: a moment we're going to talk to John Decker. He's

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Speaker 2: Cafe's White House correspondent and he has been covering the

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Speaker 2: White House and presidents for many years. And Trump had

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Speaker 2: the El Salvadoran president, Naive bucalay in, and he has

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Speaker 2: made a deal with book leg two. Well, we're giving

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Speaker 2: it the guy six million dollars. And he took in

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Speaker 2: hundreds of criminal gang member legal aliens. Now there's one

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Speaker 2: guy that's been in dispute out of the hundreds, So

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Speaker 2: of course the whole media is focusing on the one guy.

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Speaker 2: Now he's a gang member, and he was he should

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Speaker 2: be deported, but proper process wasn't followed. And Trump has

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Speaker 2: been harangued by reporters ever since over the one guy,

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Speaker 2: and he finally had had it and snapped at to

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Speaker 2: Caitlin Collins from CNN, we got some entertaining audio to

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Speaker 2: play there. But you know, the guy's a bad guy.

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Speaker 2: I really failed to understand why if he's here illegally,

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Speaker 2: he belongs to an MS thirteen gang, He's done all

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Speaker 2: these terrible violent things in his life, why anybody gives

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Speaker 2: we live in. Is John ready yet?

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Speaker 1: Now? Yet?

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Speaker 2: The deal is is Booklet came to Washington yesterday and

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Speaker 2: they held a press conference, and you know, the controversy

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Speaker 2: came because the Supreme Court said that the Trump administrations

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Speaker 2: should facilitate the return of.

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Speaker 1: This illegal alien. The guy was living in Maryland.

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Speaker 2: And this El Salvador in prison, you know, is just

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Speaker 2: the worst thing you'd ever seen. This is where they're

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Speaker 2: And it's the worst prison you'd ever want to be in.

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Speaker 2: And they're all violent psychotics. So when we get to

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Speaker 2: And Trump also proposed that homegrown criminals are going to

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Speaker 2: be next, and that snapped everybody's head back. Now, he's

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Speaker 2: got a lot going on in that. People have been

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Speaker 2: And Trump thinks we've given away the store in and

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Speaker 2: In the nineteen fifties, thirty five percent of private sector

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Speaker 2: so ironic because there's nothing but scolds that live here

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Speaker 2: The steel producers lost out to South Korea. We're going

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Speaker 2: it's fascinating. Now we got John Dekker ready to go, John,

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Speaker 2: how are you hey? I'm doing great, John, for having

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Speaker 2: me on today. I always appreciate it. I'm right here, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's good to have you on. So yesterday Trump put

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Speaker 2: what went on and at press conference.

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Speaker 3: Well, it was in the Oval Office when the President

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Speaker 3: was meeting with the L Salvador President, President Bukelli. It's

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Speaker 2: Now mistakenly because they didn't follow the proper process, but

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Speaker 3: Correct, Well, that's not clear. He's never been charged with

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Speaker 3: determined that he is a member of MS thirteen. His

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Speaker 3: lawyers maintained that he isn't. The administration maintain that he is.

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Speaker 3: But he's never had that due process that the Supreme

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Speaker 3: then you can establish that during a deportation hearing. But

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Speaker 3: that was never afforded to this individual.

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Speaker 2: And now Trump is saying it's like, hey, I can't

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Speaker 3: Right about that. I mean, at this point, you know,

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Speaker 3: the Supreme Court can issue orders. But the fact of

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Speaker 2: I guess the question, and there's no way to get

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Speaker 3: Well, it could be both. You know, certainly he's doing

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Speaker 3: Well, he mused on that idea. He suggested that idea

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Speaker 3: in El Salvador. Well, we've got a great maximum security

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Speaker 2: Is that legal to send American prisoners to foreign countries

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Speaker 1: I'd never thought of that.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't believe it's legal. You know. You know

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Speaker 3: me to weigh in with my legal opinion. There's no

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Speaker 3: violation of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, And in

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Speaker 3: addition to that, the Supreme Court in nineteen thirty six

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Speaker 3: great day, all right, all right?

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about it next.

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Speaker 2: And one of those guys is named Brego Garcia. And

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Speaker 2: The Washington media has no sense of humor about this.

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Speaker 4: And it's that you said that if the Supreme Court

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Speaker 2: You said that on Air.

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Speaker 5: And they said that it mustator. Why didn't you just say,

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Speaker 5: isn't it wonderful that we're keeping criminals out of our country?

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Speaker 5: Why can't you just say that?

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Speaker 6: Why do you go over and over and that's why nobody.

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Speaker 7: Watches you anymore?

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Speaker 8: You know you have no credibility.

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Speaker 2: She's attractive, though, John, Oh, she's a hottie, absolutely, But

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Speaker 2: Though really hot looking, but a headache. You know who

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Speaker 1: Ah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that that that that's all category. It's wow,

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Speaker 2: she looks she looks really nice, but boy, that'd be

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Speaker 9: Women should be a scene, not her, John.

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Speaker 1: It's just not a date, is all I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Oh, okay, okay, I mean, you can go off all

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 2: Here's the Salvador and President asking Trump about his border success.

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Speaker 7: Actually, what you're doing with the border is remarkable, as Trump,

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Speaker 5: As of this morning, nine point one percent to be exact.

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Speaker 6: What are those numbers not in the media, Well, they

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Speaker 5: our country. Actually, yeah, but it's a shame. You're right,

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Speaker 5: isn't that a great question? Why doesn't the media, why

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Speaker 5: don't they put out numbers? Yeah, ninety It's like it's crazy, right,

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Speaker 2: All right, So he says CNN hates the country. We

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Speaker 2: the CNN anchor cutting in to announce that that's not true,

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Speaker 1: This kind of lawsuit. That's all ahead.

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Speaker 1: All right, we would we had to stop.

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Speaker 2: We were playing a clip of Trump with the El

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Speaker 2: And the media spent the last over a week obsessing

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Speaker 2: The prisoner, and his prisoner's name is He'll break Garcia said,

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Speaker 2: So you know what's the problem here. So Trump rails

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Speaker 7: Actually, what you're doing with the border is remarkable, as Trump,

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Speaker 5: Doesn't want to put them out because they don't like

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Speaker 4: You're right.

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Speaker 5: Isn't that a great question?

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Speaker 6: Why doesn't an immediate why do they put out numbers?

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Speaker 5: Same turn round.

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Speaker 1: It is a crazy turnaround. And I do track what

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Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many dozens of stories has

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Speaker 1: He came here illegally.

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Speaker 2: And anyway, after Trump says CNN hates this country, CNN

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Speaker 8: We've been listening to a lengthy live press conference inside

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Speaker 1: And it was always a load of crap.

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Speaker 2: the border in about a day, they have to switch

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Speaker 2: to something else that proves we're bad guys, and that's

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Speaker 2: Albrago Garcia, mister gang member, that they didn't process properly

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Speaker 2: when they were clearing the country out of two hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixty eight violent felons, people who committed murders. For

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Speaker 2: God's sakes, you know, they'd rather they'd rather us wait

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Speaker 2: until Brago Garcia kill somebody kills an American before we're

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Speaker 2: allowed to deport them. All right, we got uh, we've

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Speaker 2: got more coming up.

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

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Speaker 2: Six John Cobelt Show. We got a lot coming up.

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Speaker 2: We are going to get into the la WP claiming

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Speaker 2: that it can't be sued over not selling up the reservoir,

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Speaker 2: which was needed for the Palisades fire. We're also gonna

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Speaker 2: have Michael Monks on to explain how with the massive

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Speaker 2: financial problems LA County has, they're not laying off a

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Speaker 2: single person for the upcoming budget year, So we'll get

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Speaker 2: into that early on.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm always looking for a sign from God.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that?

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Speaker 9: I didn't know that.

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Speaker 1: I am what are you looking with?

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Speaker 2: Eastern I'm looking for a sign that this all matters,

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Speaker 2: that there's a point.

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Speaker 1: To this in existence.

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Speaker 9: Have you received to sign yet?

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's that's I'm bringing this up because it's Easter week, right,

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Speaker 2: and it's Passover week, so you know, people are going

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Speaker 2: to their ceremonies and having their celebrations and their masses

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Speaker 2: and and and they're they're you know, they were their

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Speaker 2: Passover dinners. And I you know, I don't do any

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Speaker 2: of that because I don't think there's anything out there.

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Speaker 2: It's a onely place to be. Must everybody seems to

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Speaker 2: believe in something, and I'm I'm I'm by myself.

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Speaker 3: I'm kind of here. I that.

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Speaker 2: That's why we get along so well, exactly. We both

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Speaker 2: think this is all kind of silly and pointless. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm looking for a sign. There's a reward for all

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Speaker 2: this nonsense. But this could be a sign from God.

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Speaker 2: Did you see what's happened to Harvey Weinstein?

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Speaker 1: Yes, this is good.

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Speaker 2: Weinstein had his sex convictions in New York City overturned

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Speaker 2: because a judge thought that the prosecutor, well, the appeals

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Speaker 2: court judges thought that the trial judge made a grievous

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Speaker 2: error by allowing three extra women to tell their stories

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Speaker 2: in court about what Weinstein did to that. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: it was the prosecutor had three more women and the

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Speaker 2: trial judge said yeah. Now the appeals court said no,

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Speaker 2: and eventually the conviction was overturned and thrown out. Thrown out,

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Speaker 2: so they have to do the trial all over again.

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Speaker 2: This is the original trial. He's still been in prison

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Speaker 2: because he was also convicted here in Los Angeles. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: the second trial is about to start. They wheeled him

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Speaker 2: into court and he's terribly ill and whatever this illness is,

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Speaker 2: he's gained twenty five pounds.

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Speaker 9: I saw that on TV this morning. He did not

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Speaker 9: look good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he.

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Speaker 1: He's He also has a severe tongue infection.

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Speaker 9: That's even doing's doing behind bars?

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Speaker 1: Where's that where's that? Where's that tongue bit? I get

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Speaker 1: that tongue scraper handle's been selling.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think in prison you need that. He got

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Speaker 2: some kind of horrible infection. He's getting nineteen pounds in

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Speaker 2: the last month alone.

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Speaker 1: But on prison food.

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Speaker 2: That's what I don't understand. He's got some terrible illnesses.

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Speaker 2: He was in the hospital, he's sent to prison. How

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Speaker 2: do you gain twenty five pounds? He should be emaciated

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Speaker 2: with all that going on. In fact, the tongue infection

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Speaker 2: infection makes it difficult to swallow.

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Speaker 1: Well, if he can't swallow, where's the weight coming from?

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Speaker 1: This isn't possible.

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Speaker 2: He's got he's got diabetes, and he's got a rare

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Speaker 2: form of bone marrow cancer called chronic myalloid leukemia. His

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Speaker 2: attorney say that he's not getting his medication. It's missed

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Speaker 2: and delayed. His chest palpitations are ignored, and he has

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Speaker 2: serious mobility issues, and the prison management doesn't seem to care.

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Speaker 2: Saw do he gained twenty five pounds with all that?

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Speaker 2: That makes no sense, Not to mention it doesn't make

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Speaker 2: any sense at all. So I wonder what I wonder

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Speaker 2: if it's related to the infection.

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Speaker 9: Oh yeah, maybe he's retaining a lot of water or something.

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Speaker 1: What was the exact moment he got the infection? What

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Speaker 1: was he doing?

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Speaker 9: I just find it fascinating, don't you, John? I mean,

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Speaker 9: here he was, this sought after producer, I mean actors

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Speaker 9: and actresses, and everybody kissed is you know what?

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Speaker 1: And here he That's how you get an infection. Kissed

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Speaker 1: a lot more than just that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to get a tongue infection, you go

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Speaker 2: kiss Harvey Weinstein. I remember when I came to LA

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Speaker 2: and it was really Hollywood was in its heyday, modern Hollywood,

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Speaker 2: and the other times just filled.

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Speaker 1: With articles about all these characters.

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Speaker 2: Right, they were like royalty, and they were treated like

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Speaker 2: royalty in the press because if you didn't do that,

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Speaker 2: then these movie executives wouldn't buy advertising in your newspaper.

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Speaker 2: So everybody kissed his ass and all the other Hollywood

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Speaker 2: corporate leaders back then. And I used to think, man,

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Speaker 2: this is stupid. You know, these are the people who

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Speaker 2: are always jockeying for position at restaurants. Right, they have

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Speaker 2: their own tables and they you know, they have their

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Speaker 2: own hotel suites that are dedicated to them, and it

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Speaker 2: was like, you know, you come, I come from New Jersey.

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Speaker 2: It's like, what is this stupid world? Why is everybody

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Speaker 2: worshiping these clowns they made They you know, they shoot

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Speaker 2: movies which are made up of crazy people playing pretend

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Speaker 2: as adults.

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Speaker 9: They make a whole lot of money.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I understand.

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Speaker 2: It's but there wasn't just you know, hey, we got

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Speaker 2: a good business here. We're a bunch of rich guys.

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Speaker 2: They were some kind of special lords and you know,

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Speaker 2: masters of the universe.

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Speaker 9: Because everybody watched me in movies and they're hoping that, hey,

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Speaker 9: I'm going to give you a good table. I'm going

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Speaker 9: to do you this favor. I'm gonna do this.

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Speaker 2: You're going to put me.

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Speaker 9: In your new movie or who knows.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, until it came to you have to kiss Harvey Weinstein. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: part all right, We got more coming up.

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Speaker 2: Michael Muntz is coming in next The UH, the La

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Speaker 2: County UH Board of Supervisors has got billions of dollars

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Speaker 2: they have to find to pay various bills.

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Speaker 1: But they're not They're not gonna have any layoffs next year.

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Speaker 1: No La County worker loses their job.

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Speaker 2: And then I got to tell you about how the

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Speaker 2: lawp is getting sued by Palisades residents and they claim,

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Speaker 2: oh no, no, it's illegal to sue us.

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Speaker 1: You can't do that.

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Speaker 2: Deborah Mark live in the CAFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey,

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Speaker 2: you've been listening to The John Covelt Show podcast. You

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Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six

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Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,

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