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Speaker 1: My Heart podcasts, hear more kids podcasts, playlists, and listen

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Speaker 1: live on the Free I had a.

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Speaker 2: Dean erupting in Los Angeles, downtown Los Angeles. If you

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Speaker 2: missed the audio before, there are a bunch of people

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Speaker 2: that gathered downtown Los Angeles outside the Metropolitan Detention Center

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Speaker 2: to oppose the immigration laws that Trump is imposing. And look,

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Speaker 2: just to give you an idea and why this is

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Speaker 2: affecting Australia so much, Lauren Tomrci, who was covering the

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Speaker 2: event four Channel nine, was shot by a rubber bullet

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Speaker 2: by the LAPD. Have a listen to this if you

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Speaker 2: haven't already, the.

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Speaker 3: LAPD moving in on horseback, firing rubber bullets at protesters,

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Speaker 3: moving them on through the heart of lat.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen that footage as well, Like she is okay,

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Speaker 1: by the way, really want to stress that she is okay.

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Speaker 1: But if you see the footage, naturally, when I first

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Speaker 1: saw the headline, it was like, oh, so she's been

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Speaker 1: caught in the crossfire. It's a horrible accident. It's not

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Speaker 1: you see someone behind her aim and shoot her in

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Speaker 1: the league.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And there's a lot of people are saying online,

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Speaker 2: you know, that's a person who's got a camera on them,

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Speaker 2: clearly reporting for the news. I mean the reporter should

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Speaker 2: be immune image what they're doing to everybody else. There's

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Speaker 2: footage of protest is getting stamped by the LAPD on horseback.

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Speaker 4: So look.

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Speaker 2: Miley Hogan from seven News, their USA correspondent, joins us

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Speaker 2: right now on Will and Woody. Miley, I saw you

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Speaker 2: on TV with a helmet seconds ago. Are you okay?

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Speaker 4: Yes? Yeah, Look I am okay. We do where a

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Speaker 4: ppe when we feel it's appropriate, and we just try

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Speaker 4: to assess the situation as much as we can and

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Speaker 4: hope that our training will kick in and we can

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Speaker 4: keep as safe as possible. Look, I will say sometimes

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Speaker 4: things happen when you're on the field, when you're reporting

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Speaker 4: on stories like Viswatan, sometimes things do happen. And unfortunately

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Speaker 4: for Lauren, that was an awful, distressing situation. And I

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Speaker 4: think we've all seen the footage and we can see

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Speaker 4: what happened there. I don't think there's much she could

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Speaker 4: have done really to avoid that.

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Speaker 2: Is it scary though, mother, because I mean is what

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Speaker 2: he just pointed out. I mean, yeah, there's not much

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Speaker 2: that you might have done if you according a crossfire. Sure,

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Speaker 2: we'd all kind of look at that and go that

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Speaker 2: was hectic. But as you said, we've all said in

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Speaker 2: the footage, she clearly takes aim at her and shoots her.

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Speaker 2: Is this this is a different sort of conflict that

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Speaker 2: we're seeing here. I mean, for anyone who's seen the

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Speaker 2: Alix Galan movie Civil War, there's a lot of that

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Speaker 2: about this for me right now, And I'm just you know,

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Speaker 2: if the press are getting targeted, how close is this

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Speaker 2: to unfolding into something a bit more hectic? Do you think?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 4: I think as a journalist, you never want to see

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Speaker 4: the press getting targeted. It's important for journalists to be

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Speaker 4: able to be close up to these situations so we

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Speaker 4: the ground and then report it back. So the last

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Speaker 4: thing you want to do or see is journalists being

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Speaker 4: intimidated or frightened from doing their job. We want to

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Speaker 4: be able to be in there and get it done.

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Speaker 4: It's so important. I do believe that there'll be an

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Speaker 4: investigation into what happened to my friend in the wonderful

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Speaker 4: port Lauren to Marcy, So hopefully we'll get to Marsters there.

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Speaker 4: I haven't experienced that myself on the ground, so I

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Speaker 4: will say I mean there's been times where rubber bullets

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Speaker 4: has been definitely shot in the direction of where we

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Speaker 4: Is it is always a bit hectic, to say the

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Speaker 1: Hey, Milly, is this one of those situations where obviously

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Speaker 1: everything we're seeing on TV and through media, it looks

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Speaker 1: really hectic. To be honest, it kind of looks like

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Speaker 1: the kind of thing where there's no way I would

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Speaker 1: feel safe going to Los Angeles right now, Like if

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Speaker 1: I had a holiday book for tomorrow, I would be

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Speaker 1: canceling that trip one hundred percent. Is it actually that

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Speaker 4: If you've ever been to Los Angeles, you'll understand it's

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Speaker 4: a city that is ball It's absolutely massive, and these

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Speaker 4: concentrated to i'd say a four block radius in the

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Speaker 4: wouldn't be recommending going down to downtown Los Angeles at

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Speaker 4: this time. But you could go across to Santa Monica,

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Speaker 4: getting on with their life. This really is concentrated in

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Speaker 2: Are you afraid though? Because I mean Miley, the last

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Speaker 2: time the National Guard was sent out it was in

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Speaker 2: nineteen sixty five to try and aid protesters in a

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Speaker 2: silent protest. And you know, I know the governor of

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Speaker 2: California has said, you know, well, first of all, Trump

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Speaker 2: has endorsed his arrest, and then he's come out and said,

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Speaker 2: come and arrest me, big guy. And now Trump has

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Speaker 2: said literally used the words big guy. Ironically, how American

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Speaker 2: is that? And then he's now I know that Trump

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Speaker 2: is sending a over hundreds, if not thousands of Marines

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Speaker 2: sure in a downtown area, surely there's a part of

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Speaker 2: you that feels as if you know, this is potentially

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Speaker 2: the spark that kicks off a powder keg of violence.

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Speaker 4: I think it will be interesting to see what does

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Speaker 4: happen when the Marines arriving downtown Los Angeles. To be

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Speaker 4: very honest with you, it hasn't been very It hasn't

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Speaker 4: been made clear what the Marines will be doing when

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Speaker 4: they get here. There's been no clear communication to the media,

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Speaker 4: to the public. Are they going to be on the streets.

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Speaker 4: We're going to see marine marine on the streets doing

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Speaker 4: crowd control. These are soldiers that have been trained to

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Speaker 4: fight foreign wars. Are we going to see people with

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Speaker 4: that level of training dealing with their own citizens who

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Speaker 4: are protesting. I mean, that would be an extraordinary exhalation,

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Speaker 4: and it would be an extraordinary show of for so

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Speaker 4: how far Donald Trump is willing to go to use

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Speaker 4: the military to intimidate American citizens and also to patrol

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Speaker 4: these It really would be an extraordinary escalation. If the

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Speaker 4: Marines were on the streets here will be fascinating and

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Speaker 4: very unprecedented to watch.

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Speaker 2: Really well, he said they're going over there to restore order,

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Speaker 2: is what he said. And you know, as Newsom has

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Speaker 2: said that the governor of California that they shouldn't be deployed.

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Speaker 2: They shouldn't be deploying American soldiers on American soil, facing

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Speaker 2: their own countrymen to fulfill the deranged fantasy of a

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Speaker 2: dictatorial president, which I think is really what this is,

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Speaker 2: which I mean, this scares me, Miley. I don't think

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Speaker 2: i've ever particularly in America. I mean, we see this

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Speaker 2: in Europe. We see we see presidents and autocrats deploying

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Speaker 2: the military to put down rebellions and cups all over

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Speaker 2: the world, and that is often the beginning of the end.

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Speaker 2: So the fact that president of the United States is

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Speaker 2: doing this in his own country, in Los Angeles, that

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Speaker 2: scares me. And I just yeah, the fact they're shooting

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Speaker 2: the press, that's I hope you're doing all right.

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Speaker 4: I'm yeah, thank you, thank you. I mean, it is

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Speaker 4: definitely an interesting time to be a journalist in the

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Speaker 4: United States.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, Okay, good luck, Miley. It's midnight in LA

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Speaker 1: right now, so hopefully you can get some sleep safely,

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Speaker 1: and we're just hoping here that it calms down.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, thank you, Thank you so much, Thanks so much.

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Speaker 2: For joining us. Smiley Hogan their seven years USA correspondent,

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Speaker 2: keeping subrested of what is going on in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: That scary stuff. Look, it might be controlled, it seems

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Speaker 2: like it is in downtown LA, but like he's just

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Speaker 2: there's I know, there's more protest planned for across the country.

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Speaker 2: In the next coming days. So America showing on paper

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Speaker 2: now that you know, ideologically it has been the most polarizing,

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Speaker 2: cut or polarized country in the world. We saw that

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Speaker 2: the elections, and now we might actually be seeing that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: as I said, in flesh, which is just really scary

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Speaker 2: thought I reckon